The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
What’s the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
Neil G. Jacobs
Description
This chapter explains the fact that Yiddish and Hebrew are very different languages. Hebrew is a member of the Semitic family of languages, closely related to Aramaic (the language spoken by Jesus) and somewhat to Arabic. Yiddish is more difficult to classify genetically. Its basic grammatical structure derives from Germanic, as does most of its vocabulary.