Soviet Yiddish - Language-Planning and Linguistic Development

Zusatztext The differences in orthography and spelling strike the eye first, and Estraikh deals with these matters at length in Soviet Yiddish; but his richly detailed and thoroughly documented account of every aspect of Soviet Yiddish shows that the visual eccentricities were the tip of the iceberg, and what a complex and absorbing a history there is here for the linguist, the sociolinguist, and the student of the politics of language Zusammenfassung A study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union. A chronicle of orthographic and other reforms is created from contemporary publications and archive material from pre-Revolutionary Russia to the 1980s. Comparisons are drawn between Soviet Yiddish and Ukrainian, Belorussian, and German reforms.

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• Authors: Gennady Estraikh, Gennady (Editor of Yiddish Publications Estraikh, Estraikh Gennady
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1998
• EAN: 9780198184799
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818479-9
• No. of pages: 227
• Series: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Sociolinguistics, Social and cultural history, Historical & comparative linguistics, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Historical and comparative linguistics, Yiddish, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era