Marvin Irving Herzog

Contributor

BIOGRAPHY

Atran Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Yiddish Studies, Columbia University. Director and Editor in Chief, Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry. Author of The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland; coeditor of The Field of Yiddish, Third and Fourth Collections.

Primary Contributions (1)

Thematic map of Europe displaying the distribution of Germanic languages, with different colors indicating regions where English, German, Netherlandic (Dutch), Frisian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese are spoken. Striped areas mark regions where bilingualism is common, and language regions cover countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and parts of surrounding countries.

West Germanic languages

West Germanic languages, group of Germanic languages that developed in the region of the North Sea, Rhine-Weser, and Elbe. Out of the many local West Germanic dialects the following six modern standard languages have arisen: English, Frisian, Dutch (Netherlandic-Flemish), Afrikaans, German, and…

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