Talk:Western Yiddish

Local variants
The Western Yiddish dialect spoken in Alsace remains the subject of specialist study with a dedicated annual journal, "Les Cahiers du CREDYO", published by the Centre de Recherche d'etudes et de documentation du yidich occidental, first appearing in 1995. A Google search on "cahier credyo" will return links to the full text of several articles that have appeared in it. There has been some debate about the extent to which the terms Judeo-Alsatian and Alsatian Yiddish are fully synonymous or, indeed, whether either of them is a correct designator for the dialect (locally termed "Jeddischdaitsch"). In any case, the name of the local variant is not an alternate designation for the parent Western Yiddish aggregate. --Futhark|Talk 09:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Relevant google search. Tom e rtalk  10:48, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Consolidation
Does anyone object to my moving the material in this article to the one on Yiddish dialects, and then changing the present heading into a redirect? I've posted the same query on Eastern Yiddish. The Eastern and Western articles both require substantial development, but the higher-level article has more than enough space to provide a unified platform for both. --Futhark|Talk 10:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't, really, although I'd prefer to see this article, as well as those for Poylish, Litvish and Ukrainish fleshed-out into stand-alone articles of their own. Tom e rtalk  12:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've now made the redirection. If sufficient material about any of the Eastern or Western variants is added to the single target article it will be easy enough to move it back out into one or more separate articles. It is, however, also worth noting that a general dialectological presentation such as might be expected in the Wikipedia, derives a good deal of benefit from the immediate comparison of the main forms. -- Futhark|Talk 13:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)