Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish
Jews, Sorbs, Khazars, and the Kiev-Polessian Dialect| By: | Paul Wexler |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Print ISBN: | 9783110172584 |
| eText ISBN: | 9783110898736 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.