a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
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yiddish::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | german, german language, high german |
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Yiddish is another example of a language that borrowed grammar as well as words.
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Yiddish and Spanish turned out to be more than adequate to meet her daily needs.
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Yiddish literature began with translations of and commentary on religious texts.
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Yiddish is basically German leavened with Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic ingredients.
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Yiddish Twist Orchestra are a band with a mission, and their own quirky mythology.
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Yiddish words come primarily from German, Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic sources.
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Yiddish and the Romani language are recognised as non-territorial languages.
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Yiddish and the Romani language were recognised in 1996 as non-territorial languages.
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Yiddish parentage is the more popular explanation but, sadly, it sounds the less likely.
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- A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
- Yiddish (yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages. It is written in the Hebrew alphabet.
- A West Germanic language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc. ...
- The language of East European Jews prior to the Second World War. It contained elements of German, Hebrew, Polish, and other languages and was spoken in several dialects.
- A language that combines elements of German and Hebrew.
- Yiddish is a dialect of German written in Hebrew characters. It was spoken by Jews living in Germany, or whose ancestors had lived in Germany before migrating elsewhere, during the late medieval period and the modern period. ...
- A language primarily used by Jews in Europe. It uses the Hebrew alphabet, and includes a mixture of words from Hebrew, German and other European languages.
- A language very similar to German, usually written in Hebrew characters, that was spoken chiefly by Ashkenazi Jews in Eastern Europe and the places to which those Jews migrated.
- A Jewish language that developed beginning in the Middle Ages as Jews who were pushed eastward from Germany wove many Hebrew and some Slavic terms into the Germanic base of the language that they preserved as their ethnic tongue. ...
