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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wexler, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
Colección:Studies in Arabic language and literature ; 10.
Temas:
801-1299
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Yiddish language > History and criticism.
Jews > Civilization.
Jews > History.
Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
Yiddish (Langue) > Histoire et critique.
Juifs > Civilisation.
Juifs > Histoire.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Yiddish.
Yiddish language
Jews > Civilization > Foreign influences
Silk Road > Language.
Route de la soie > Langage.
Asia > Silk Road
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Pages
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PART 1
  • EDITORIAL PREAMBLE
  • 0 INTRODUCTION
  • 0.1 Dedication
  • 0.2 Acknowledgements
  • 0.3 Transliteration and abbreviations
  • 0.4 Symbols used with Yiddish examples identified as borrowed from or modeled on Afro-Asian patterns of discourse
  • 1 METHODOLOGY AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • 1.1 Hebroid(ism)
  • lessico franco
  • 1.2 Germanoid(ism)
  • Slavoid(ism)
  • 1.3 Judaists, Judaeanism
  • 1.4 The role of the Iranians, Arabs, Khazars and Chinese in the maintenance of the Irano-Arab Trade Roads
  • The role of the Iranians and Arabs in the creation of the Old Judaic languages and Modern Hebroid
  • the role of the Roma on the Irano-Arab Trade Roads
  • 1.5 The Iranian Talmud
  • 1.6 Judaists in Iran
  • Ashkenazim and Sephardim
  • 1.7 Ibn Khordādhbeh on the Radhanite merchants and their linguistic competence
  • 1.8 Relexification
  • 1.9 Professional, non-tribal confederations (with special attention to the White Croats)
  • conversion to Judaism
  • the rise of the Judaic peoples and their relationship to the Palestinian Judaeans
  • 1.10 The spread of (Judeo-)Iranians and their languages, cultures and folklores
  • burial practices
  • šu'ūbijjah
  • Sarmatianism
  • 1.11 Afro-Eurasian Judaic toponyms
  • 1.12 Judeo-Iranian architectural and textual remains
  • 1.13 Westward and eastward transmission of Iranian art
  • 2 AFRO-EURASIAN ELEMENTS IN YIDDISH
  • 2.1 The Data
  • PART 2
  • 3 LOOKING AT THE OVERLOOKED: CONCLUSIONS AND TOPICS FOR FUTURE STUDY
  • 3.1 Postscript
  • 3.2 Definition of Yiddish as a relexified Slavic language
  • Iranianization of Old Judaic languages
  • "Silk Road framework" for reconstructing historical Afro-Eurasian isoglosses
  • Romani
  • 3.3 Yiddish as a tool for reconstructing the relative unity of Common Slavic in c.1000 A.D. and for establishing the relative chronology of Iranian and Turkic diachronic change
  • qualitative and quantitative aspects of Iranianization of various target languages
  • 3.4 Etymological research
  • new Yiddish etymologies
  • the use of Yiddish to reconstruct the history of the Irano-Arab Trade Roads
  • the neglect of "Silk Road linguistics."
  • 3.5 Using Yiddish to locate the position of Irano-Slavic and other confederations in the Slavic and German lands
  • the White Croat state
  • 3.6 Relexification in Old Judaic languages
  • lingua franca
  • lessico franco
  • secretive languages and lexicons
  • African English Creoles
  • 3.7 The disadvantages of defining Yiddish as only a European language
  • languages of peripatetic merchants
  • the implication of the terms "Ashkenaz(ic)" (Scythians), "Sephard(ic)" (Sardes) and "Lotir" (speakers of lotera'i)
  • Radhanite history

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