Goody613, Rav Moshe ZT”L says that Yiddish, which was known as “lashon Ashkenaz” (IE, the Germanic tongue)in all the seforim hakedoshim until very recently, was no different than Arabic or Spanish which became Ladino. He actually asks, how could the Jews speak Spanish, Arabic, Germanic (which evolved into yiddish) if the Jews didn’t change their language in mitzrayim? He answers that that was only when the Jews had no other distinguishing features. In other words, Yiddish IS A VIOLATION of “lo shinu es leshonam”, as it was the local Germanic tongue isntead of Hebrew or Aramaic.
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