Abstract
MSN demonstrates that the most important contributor languages for Israeli are: (i) Indo-European — mostly Germanic and Slavonic: Yiddish, Polish, Russian, English and German; (ii) Western Semitic: Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic (on Aramaic, see Eliezer Meir Lipschütz in ZV 4, 1914: 20). Until the first half of the twentieth century, Yiddish was the most influential among these Indo-European languages, overtaking Russian and Polish. Currently, however, English, which became dominant during the British Mandate in Eretz Yisrael is the main SL owing to its globalization. For classification by source language (percentage), see Graph 1 in §7.2.1.
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Zuckermann, G. (2003). The Source Languages. In: Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403938695_7
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