At first I thought it might be low German or a kid of Frisian but now I agree 100% with Emanuel. I think it is a German dialect from the north of Italy. Seems as if I remember seeing a video clip of it but just can’t remember WHICH dialect it is.
I also heard haint, as well as “hot” for German “hat”, but I don’t think it’s Yiddish. There are other sounds that are not Yiddish as I understand it: wir for mir, for example, and what i think is schlecht with a soft “ch. That said, I have no idea what sort of German it is.
I just don’t get too many Yiddish vibes here and am going for a non-Jewish German immigrant variety such as Pennsylvanian German. But I have been wrong in the past …
It’s a variety of German … perhaps from Eastern Europe or Northern Italy (meaning some sort of Upper German).
At first I thought it might be low German or a kid of Frisian but now I agree 100% with Emanuel. I think it is a German dialect from the north of Italy. Seems as if I remember seeing a video clip of it but just can’t remember WHICH dialect it is.
Simon says it’s spoken mainly in New York; so might it be Yiddish, or something similar?
In that case it could be Pennsylvania ‘Dutch’ which is a Middle German variety.
I definitely hear haint for heute and I think I hear Wald with a voiced final stop. I think that it’s Yiddish.
I also heard haint, as well as “hot” for German “hat”, but I don’t think it’s Yiddish. There are other sounds that are not Yiddish as I understand it: wir for mir, for example, and what i think is schlecht with a soft “ch. That said, I have no idea what sort of German it is.
I just don’t get too many Yiddish vibes here and am going for a non-Jewish German immigrant variety such as Pennsylvanian German. But I have been wrong in the past …
The mystery language is Gottscheerish (Göttscheabarisch), a West Germanic language spoken mainly in southern Slovenia, and in New York in the USA.