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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wexler, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021.
Series:Studies in Arabic language and literature ; 10.
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