Lisa

Thanks for the input. I was only being tongue-in-cheek when I said that Yiddish was German with a funny accent. I knew it was more than that. But it does sound a lot like it.

I can't help feeeling that your message is a bit terse. Can't imagine why.

Cheers

Terry

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>Never heard of Ladino - Romansh yes (as in Benelux?). How did that evolve in Israel?
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>It didn't.
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>Terry, Ladino is the patois of Sephardic Jews, as Yiddish is the patois of Ashkenazic Jews.
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>And to answer your other question, no Yiddish is not German with a funny accent. It is an amalgam of German, Eastern European languages, with some Hebrew and Aramaic, developed by Jews in that area of the world (=Ashkenazim).
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>So Jews from the Mediterranean area and North Africa (=Sephardim) don't speak Yiddish. They developed a different amalgam, OK? Has quite a bit of Spanish in it.
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