Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

I meant their home language.
Hardy

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "'Jacob Greenberg'"
<grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>;
"'Gerhard Schreiber'" <GERHARDRODICA_at_aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

> In answer to Hardy's question about the language the Jewish residents
> of Chernivtsi speak currently: Mostly they speak Ukrainian or Russian.
> Unfortunately I know only a few words of each of these languages
> and therefore cannot distinguish one from the other.
> About 10% - 20% know Yiddish, but do not speak it amongst themselves.
> In all the years I have been visiting Chernivtsi, I have met only 3
> people,
> who are the remnants of the German speaking Jewish population.
> In the Jewish school they teach Ukrainian, Hebrew and English.
> Possibly they also teach other languages.
> Among the whole population of Chernivtsi it is possible to find people
> who speak many different European languages. I have encountered
> people, who in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, speak: German, Polish,
> Romanian, Hebrew, French and Italian.
>
> Mimi

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