mdd -“Right, Health, a dialect of German is a Jewish language, but a dialect of Loshon Kodesh is not? How ridiculuos is that!?!”
Your perception is wrong.
From the dictionary:
“Dialect – 1. regional variety of language: a regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
2. language spoken by class or profession: a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession
3. nonstandard speech: nonstandard spoken language
4. member of language family: one of a family of related languages – Romance dialects such as French and Italian”
Yiddish would not be considered a dialect because it has a different Alfa -Bet. So it’s a new language – a Jewish one.
Even though Ivrit would fall into #4 -it still is a new language, just like French and Italian are two different languages. So it might be in the same family as Loshon Kodesh, but it is its’ own language. The biggest proof that they made a new language, is because they changed a lot of pronuciation. Why? Because they didn’t want to speak the language that Jews always spoke.