Download or read book Two-tiered Relexification in Yiddish written by Paul Wexler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book claims that Yiddish was created when Judaized Sorbs first relexified their language to High German between the 9th-12th centuries; by the 15th century, the descendants of the Judaized Khazars also relexified their Kiev-Polessian (northern Ukrainian and southern Belarusian) speech to Yiddish and German, Yiddish thus uses a mixed West-East Slavic grammar and suggests that converted Khazars were a major component in the Ashkenazic ethnogenesis.