Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Yiddish ( ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh, lit. 'Judeo-German') [9] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.
Yiddish is the language of the Ashkenazim, central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world’s most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- History of Yiddish
- Yiddish Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Links
- Germanic Languages
- Languages Written with The Hebrew Script
- GeneratedCaptionsTabForHeroSec
There have been Jews in area that is now Germany since Roman times. A distinct Jewish culture known as Ashkenazi, or Germanic Jewry, appeared by the 10th century. Ashkenaz was the medieval Hebrew name for Germany, though the Ashkenaz area also included parts of northern France and later spread to Eastern Europe. The everyday language of the Ashkena...
Source: https://www.yivo.org/yiddish-alphabet, with Yiddish script letter names from Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about the Yiddish language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish http://yiddish.haifa.ac.il http://www.usa-people-search.com/content-the-jewish-culture-and-the-yiddish-language.aspx The Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture http://www.yiddishculture.org Online Yiddish lessons http://www.yiddishbookcent...
Afrikaans, Alsatian, Bavarian, Cimbrian, Danish, Dutch, Elfdalian, English, Faroese, Flemish, Frisian (East), Frisian (North), Frisian (Saterland), Frisian (West), German, Gothic, Gottscheerish, Gronings, Hunsrik, Icelandic, Limburgish, Low German, Luxembourgish, Mòcheno, Norn, Norwegian, Old English, Old Norse, Pennsylvania German, Ripuarian, Scot...
Aramaic, Bukhori, Domari, Hebrew, Jewish Neo-Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, Juhuri, Knaanic, Ladino, Mozarabic, Yiddish, Yevanic Page last modified: 05.03.22 [top] Why not share this page: If you like this site and find it useful, you can support it by making a donation via PayPal or Patreon, or by contributing in other ways. Omniglot is how...
Yiddish is a Germanic language spoken mainly by Ashkenazic Jews, with about three million speakers worldwide. Learn about its origin, writing system, dialects, sample text, videos and online resources.
Vilnius: Im Rahmen des Summer Program in Yiddish Language and Literature des Vilnius Yiddish Institute an der Universität Vilnius finden alljährlich vierwöchige Jiddisch-Kurse statt, wobei mit Gesangs-, Musik-, Tanz- oder Literaturkursen die jüdische Kultur nahegebracht wird.
YIDDISH LANGUAGE, language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stocks, the language was gradually molded to serve a wide range of communicative needs. As the society which used it achieved one of the highest levels of cultural autonomy in Jewish history, the Yiddish ...
Yiddish is the historic language of Ashkenazic (Central and East European) Jewry, and is the third principal literary language in Jewish history, after classical Hebrew and (Jewish) Aramaic. The language is characterized by a synthesis of Germanic (the majority component, derived from medieval German city dialects, themselves recombined) with ...
It is impossible to pin down exactly where or when Yiddish emerged, but the most widely-accepted theory is that the language came into formation in the 10th century, when Jews from France and Italy began to migrate to the German Rhine Valley. There, they combined the languages they brought with them, together with their new neighbors ...
