"Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Just a question: What about Jiddish? I've learnt it would be exactly the same than > the > "Mittelhochdeutsch" and would be nearly unchanged for about 800 years?
it is a branch which has, in fact, retained many a form of medieval German. Yiddish, however, has changed a lot over the centuries in that it e.g. took over a lot of vocabulary and some grammatical features from surrounding languages (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English). Actually, I doubt it can be called an Indo-European language at all because half of it is Hebrew. There is, btw, no Yidish word for the lute. So, what is this about? :) -- Cheers, Mathias Mathias Roesel, Grosze Annenstrasze 5, 28199 Bremen, Deutschland/ Germany, T/F +49 - 421 - 165 49 97, Fax +49 1805 060 334 480 67, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
