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I mean, I know, I speak Yiddish. But we have p t k like Italian, Spanish, or Ukranian: unaspirated.
I find things like Swiss German much easier to understand than Stamdaych (idk how you call standard German).
https://youtube.com/shorts/BQY9fCKIJOk?si=T411Iy470OE3ZKOg
well yes exactly, Yiddish and most Dialects are based on 1000.year old Middle High German , which is almost entirely incomprehensible to a German speaker that only understands Modern High German
the almanac dialects, so Swiss German, Swabian and Vorarlbergian dialects are still the closest to MHG because the people in these areas Successfully avoided the Nazis Language standardisation plans
so it isn't actually surprising that a Yiddish speaker understands them better