• Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I was just trying to make a joke about a different language that was also written with the Hebrew script. Turns out it sounds terrible.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayOP
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      10 months ago

      Oh vey, what a shonda…

      Real talk though, that’s honestly quite fascinating, isn’t it. Yiddish is a Germanic language while Hebrew is Semitic. Those are two entirely different language families, yet both languages use the same letters.

      Also, Finnish and Hungarian belong to a common family even though they read and sound entirely different and have little cultural and no geographic overlap.