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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.
- ≤600,000 (2021)
- Central, Eastern, and Western Europe
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.
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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...
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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 language too became an unusually vivid record of ...
In its 1,000-plus-year history, the Yiddish language has been called many things, including the tender name mameloshen (mother tongue), the adversarial moniker zhargon (jargon) and the more matter-of-fact Judeo-German. What is Yiddish? Literally speaking, Yiddish means “Jewish.”
- Mordecai Walfish
In many ways, Yiddish is the German equivalent of Judeo-Spanish. Yiddish is almost wholly German in its linguistic structure and vocabulary, but it is written in Hebrew characters. Yiddish originated in the Rhineland cities of Germany in the early Middle Ages, though the first recognizable Yiddish texts date from the 14th century. Over the next ...
Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet. It has combined some of these letters, and added some diacritics, to better represent the speech sounds of the language. Yiddish is read from right to left (as is Hebrew). In words of more than one syllable, the accent usually falls on the next-to-the-last syllable. Grammar.
