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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag
2021.
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| Colecção: | Studies in Arabic language and literature ;
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv21fqjd1 |