At 12:04 -0500 2001-11-09, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > On the other hand, if you mean the time when the Greeks reassigned some
>> letters to the vowels, then this clashes against the fact that the same
>> process has been run over again by the Hebrew script, when it has been
>> adapted to Yiddish.
>
>How is that an invention? All they did was use Hebrew letters as their
>neighbors used Roman ones.

But the Yiddish used the Hebrew abjad as an alphabet.
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