Overview
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.
- | Author: Paul Wexler
- | Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
- | Publication Date: May 17, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 724 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 3110172585
- | ISBN-13: 9783110172584
