At 07:18 -0500 2001-11-10, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>
> > >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.
>
>Not by inventing the alphabet all over again!

Certainly not! They adapted an abjad to an alphabet as the Greeks did
from the Phoenicians. They couldn't have the alphabet because, of
course, the Latin alphabet was so well-known to them.
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