Re: Need Help from a Hebrew Expert...

From: M. Ranjit Mathews (ranjit_mathews_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: 21 Aug 2004 07:13:20 -0700

g-nome <mpcato@lafn.org> wrote in message news:<4126B45E.44875611@lafn.org>...
> So much for my past comments on someone making a commentary
> to their own comments as being a twice fold redundancy.
> Such is life. Don't you think? I do.
> g-nome wrote:
> >
> > Err, umm.----
> > :
> > :
> > V
> > If you must bicker and piss on each other, at least consider
> > the commentary on Ladino below.
> >
>
> > > >> *** yiddish. It's a *** language.
> > > >
> > > >Whatever that means.
> > >
> > > You know what it means. Linguistically, it's a complete
> > > bastardisation.
> > >
> > > >And anyway, you're the one who chose to use it.
> > >
> > > It's the one language all jews seem to understand.
> > >
> >
> > So none of you Yiddishe have ever heard of Ladino? As many
> > or more Saphardim speak Ladino as Ashkenazim speak Yiddish.
> > The Spanish, Moroccan, and most Mediterranean Jews use
> > Ladino, or is this way off base.
> > Ladino is closer to Aramaic and Hebrew than is Yiddish.
> > Look for a Ladino speaker if finding out any kind of truth
> > is somewhere in the original question.
> >
> > Shalom,
> > Michael.
> >
>
> After a bit of consideration and a visit to one of my neighbors,
> the Fellashah, the Ethiopian Jews, still speak a language dialect
> that is closer to Aramaic than any other dialect I've heard of.

I've read that because they didn't have a Purim festival the Felasha
were judged to have separated from the main body of Hebrews/ Jews
before the Babylonian captivity. If this is so, when did they pick up
Aramaic? Some time between the Assyrian invasion and the Babylonian
captivity?

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