Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:26:39 +0200
> 
> There is a rather straight relation between Yiddish spelling (which
> uses Hebrew letters, sometimes modified slightly) and its
> pronunciation.  This breaks down for words of Hebrew origin (of which
> there is a number in Yiddish): those are spelled just like in Hebrew
> (without vowel marks at all) and presumably pronounced like in modern
> Hebrew.

Again, I think that the Yiddish pronunciation is rather different from
modern Hebrew, because Yiddish uses a kind of Ashkenazi variant of
Hebrew pronunciation that is alien to the modern Hebrew ears.

For example, the word "לשון" ("language") is pronounced "lāshôn" on
Hebrew, but "lôshn" in Yiddish.  And note also "מאַמאַלאָשן" which
replaces the original Hebrew spelling with a direct transliteration of
the Yiddish pronunciation with Hebrew leters.