Heathcote H. First Steps In Yiddish: Reading And Grammar

Heathcote H. First Steps In Yiddish: Reading And Grammar
Издатель: Kessinger Publishing, LLC,
Год: 2010
ISBN: 1169096638, 9781169096639
Количество страниц: 101Yiddish (in German, Jiidiah=Jewish) is the language of some six million Jews living in Eastern Europe, i.e. in Russia, Poland, Roumania, Austria, and in those Western countries, as England and America, to which these Jews are continually migrating. It is in the main old High German, influenced by Hebrew and Slavic (i.e. Russian, Polish, etc.) words and idioms. It is estimated that the Yiddish of the present time contains 70 per cent. German, 20 per cent. Hebrew, and 10 per cent. Slavic, words. The arrangement of the words in the sentence is much simpler than in modern German, and more nearly follows the English order. It is almost invariably, written in Hebrew characters, and of course, like Hebrew, read from right to left, the book beginning where an English one ends.
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