Silk Road linguistics. The birth of Yiddish and the multiethnic Jewish peoples on the Silk Roads, 9-13th centuries. The indispensable role of the Arabs, Chinese, Germans, Iranians, Slavs and Turks
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 privile...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz
2021
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| Series: | Studies in Arabic language and literature ;
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