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Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew script , which is used as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet . Letters that are silent or represent glottal stops in the Hebrew language are used as vowels in Yiddish.
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish ( ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ (j)ɪdɪʃ], lit. 'Jewish'; ייִדיש-טײַטש, Yidish-Taytsh, lit. 'Judeo-German') [9] is a West Germanic language historically ...
- ≤600,000 (2021)
- Central, Eastern, and Western Europe
Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century due to Jewish language assimilation into ...
28. Feb. 2024 · About Yiddish spelling: Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet. Learn how to read/write in Yiddish. Yiddish orthography (spelling system) varies, historically and today. Most academic researchers today are trained in YIVO standard orthography. Learn more about standardization here.
Abstract. This chapter looks at the history of Yiddish orthographic reforms proposed and implemented in the Soviet Union. These reforms were based on pre-1917 projects envisaging phoneticization of Yiddish spelling and its emancipation from the strong influence of Hebrew and German orthographic conventions. In 1920, the most radical part of the ...
Yiddish | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. "Yiddish" published on by Oxford University Press. The Yiddish language is directly linked to the culture and destiny of the Jewish population of Central and Eastern Europe.
Full representation of all stressed and unstressed vowels (including shewas) and graphemic distinction between sibilants and shibilants were originally introduced into eighteenth-century Western Yiddish books and into contemporary New High German texts printed with Yiddish characters (cf. Paper 1954; Wexler 1981 b ).