Silk Road Linguistics: The Birth of Yiddish and the Multiethnic Jewish Peoples on the Silk Roads, 9-13th Centuries. the Indispensable Role of

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In this comprehensive study Paul Wexler demonstrates that Yiddish is a Slavic language largely relexified to genuine and artificial German and Hebrew, as a cryptic language of trade in the Khazar Empire in the 9-10th centuries for the use of multilingual Jewish merchants, who enjoyed special privileges on the Afro-Eurasian Silk Roads until the 13th century. Other Judaized trade languages (Turkic, Chinese, Arabic) were also coined at this time in the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3447115734

ISBN13:9783447115735

Release Date:May 2021

Publisher:Harrassowitz

Length:1430 Pages

Weight:1.16 lbs.

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