Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

At 15:37 -0400 2004-05-27, cowan@... wrote:

>Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
>
>> Yiddish uses an alphabet, based on German, but with Hebrew shapes.
>
>In what way is Yiddish writing derived from German writing?
>It seems to me a natural development from scriptio plena Hebrew writing.

I rather agree. Some of the orthographic choices made by the
orthographers of Yiddish may have been informed by German
orthographic practice (obviously it wasn't made in a vacuum), but I
don't see Yiddish orthography as just being a transliteration of the
German alphabet.
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