Re: Where and how developed die Jiddische Sproch

From: Torsten
Message: 66601
Date: 2010-09-14

And, BTW

> <<*Having disposed of the alleged Western origin of the Germanic
> element in Yiddish, /Mieses/ went on to show that the dominant
> influence in it are the so-called "East-Middle German" dialects
> which were spoken in the Alpine regions of Austria and Bavaria
> roughly up to the fifteenth century.* In other words, the German
> component which went into the hybrid Jewish language originated in
> the eastern regions of Germany, adjacent to the Slavonic belt of
> Eastern Europe.>>

As everybody knows, Ostmitteldeutsch is spoken in Thuringia and Silesia
http://tinyurl.com/35l96fj
and not in 'the Alpine regions of Austria and Bavaria', where they speak Oberdeutsch (characterized ia. by *-w -> -b-).


Torsten