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Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch?
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] Summary of bidi branch? |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:45:42 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden
> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:44:10 +0200
>
> > You could indeed use YIVO, but you could also simply use German.
>
> For getting Hebrew letters?
Yes. In Yiddish, Hebrew letters are used as transliterations of Latin
letters.
> > That's because many Yiddish words are actually Hebrew
> > transliterations of German words, and even words whose origin is
> > Hebrew are written in Latin-like transliterations, by adding
> > transliterations of vowels which the Hebrew original doesn't
> > consider part of the word. For example, where in a Hebrew word an
> > `a' is pronounced, the Yiddish transliteration would add an `א',
>
> Uh, no. The vowel mark is missing.
These marks are redundant (as they are in Hebrew): any speaker of the
language will have no difficulty reading the word without the
diacriticals (so-called Nikkud).
> Well, I know how to transliterate Yiddish with Latin characters. But
> that's not the point.
Frankly, I don't know what is the point. I thought you needed a way
to write Yiddish without bidi support, so I suggested a
transliteration, but perhaps you want something else.
> The usual alphabet used with Yiddish is a
> slightly modified Hebrew alphabet (pronunciation is somewhat different
> from most Hebrew words
There's no standard for Yiddish pronunciation, but most Yiddish
speakers use German pronunciation.
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