I learned about a similar phenomenon going on with Arabic, though I think it's more extreme; Modern Standard Arabic being considered a second language to regional arabic speakers.
Same could be said for more isolated groups, like rural farmers in switzerland that have not learned a standard german variety. The differences are so big you could say they're de facto different languages. The only reason especially high german dialects aren't official languages is because there is a lot of variation inbetween them as well as no standard script/spoken language in my opinion
Yiddish is a mixture of Hebrew and Middle High German, the medieval German language of the 11th-14th centuries. It was formed by writing German words in Hebrew characters in the 12th-13th centuries.
@@TonyAnnechino that low a percentage of any ethnicity could be noise, and your great grandmother learned some Yiddish from friends or neighbors growing up. Or it's accurate, and your great grandma learned it from her own, fully Jewish, grandparent. 🙂
@@TonyAnnechino there are crypto-Jews, whose ancestors converted forcibly or otherwise but who still maintain "family traditions" like certain songs or lighting candles on Fridays, or maybe even speaking Yiddish, without knowing they're Jewish traditions.
Is it just me or was pepper just trying to kill linguistic in its entirety? 😂 Also I'm not sure if you could say that bavarian, austrian and swiss is high german. As an austrian, we talk our dialect and when our german teacher asks us to speak high german (Hochdeutsch), then we refer to the clean german, which we definitely don't speak. (Let alone Switzerland..lets not talk about their german 😅)
When the German teacher says "high German" he actually means the standard variety of German. High German includes all the dialects that underwent the High German sound shift. For example the word "Water" in High German dialects contains "ss" instead of "t" whereas in low German the "t" remains. So if you pronounce the word "Water" more like "Wasser" or "Wossr" or something like that it's High German whereas "water" is low German.
When the German teacher says "high German" he actually means the standard variety of German. High German includes all the dialects that underwent the High German sound shift. For example the word "Water" in High German dialects contains "ss" instead of "t" whereas in low German the "t" remains. So if you pronounce the word "Water" more like "Wasser" or "Wossr" or something like that it's High German whereas "water" is low German.
"High German" has two meanings depending on the context-either 1) the family of dialects spoken across Austria, Switzerland, and the southern half of Germany, called "High German" because of the area's elevation, or 2) the standardized variety that gets called "High German" because it was based on some of those dialects.
I learned about a similar phenomenon going on with Arabic, though I think it's more extreme; Modern Standard Arabic being considered a second language to regional arabic speakers.
Same could be said for more isolated groups, like rural farmers in switzerland that have not learned a standard german variety. The differences are so big you could say they're de facto different languages. The only reason especially high german dialects aren't official languages is because there is a lot of variation inbetween them as well as no standard script/spoken language in my opinion
Yiddish is a mixture of Hebrew and Middle High German, the medieval German language of the 11th-14th centuries. It was formed by writing German words in Hebrew characters in the 12th-13th centuries.
This would explain why my German great-grandmother spoke some Yiddish, despite not being Jewish. I have 2% to 4% Ashkenazi Jew in my blood.
@@TonyAnnechino that low a percentage of any ethnicity could be noise, and your great grandmother learned some Yiddish from friends or neighbors growing up. Or it's accurate, and your great grandma learned it from her own, fully Jewish, grandparent. 🙂
@@Phenobarbidoll. I was thinking that she was unaware of her ancestry, but didn't know why she grew up speaking Yiddish. 🤷🏼♂️
@@TonyAnnechino there are crypto-Jews, whose ancestors converted forcibly or otherwise but who still maintain "family traditions" like certain songs or lighting candles on Fridays, or maybe even speaking Yiddish, without knowing they're Jewish traditions.
Is it just me or was pepper just trying to kill linguistic in its entirety? 😂
Also I'm not sure if you could say that bavarian, austrian and swiss is high german. As an austrian, we talk our dialect and when our german teacher asks us to speak high german (Hochdeutsch), then we refer to the clean german, which we definitely don't speak. (Let alone Switzerland..lets not talk about their german 😅)
When the German teacher says "high German" he actually means the standard variety of German. High German includes all the dialects that underwent the High German sound shift. For example the word "Water" in High German dialects contains "ss" instead of "t" whereas in low German the "t" remains. So if you pronounce the word "Water" more like "Wasser" or "Wossr" or something like that it's High German whereas "water" is low German.
When the German teacher says "high German" he actually means the standard variety of German. High German includes all the dialects that underwent the High German sound shift. For example the word "Water" in High German dialects contains "ss" instead of "t" whereas in low German the "t" remains. So if you pronounce the word "Water" more like "Wasser" or "Wossr" or something like that it's High German whereas "water" is low German.
"High German" has two meanings depending on the context-either 1) the family of dialects spoken across Austria, Switzerland, and the southern half of Germany, called "High German" because of the area's elevation, or 2) the standardized variety that gets called "High German" because it was based on some of those dialects.