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Yiddish
ייִדיש
יידיש
or
אידיש
yidish
idish
Pronunciation
[ˈjɪdɪʃ]
or
[ˈɪd ɪʃ]
Native
tae
Central
Eastren
an
Wsstren Europe
Region
Europe
Israel
North Americae
ither regions wi Jewish populations
Ethnicity
Ashkenazi Jews
Native speakers
(1.5 million citit 1986–1991 + hauf undatit)
Leid faimily
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Elbe Germanic
Heich German
Yiddish
Writin seestem
Ebreu alphabet
Yiddish orthografie
Offeecial status
Recognised minority
leid
in
Bosnie an Herzegovinae
Israel
Netherlands
Poland
Romanie
Swaden
Ukraine
Regulatit
bi
Na formal bouks
YIVO
de facto
Leid codes
ISO 639-1
yi
ISO 639-2
yid
ISO 639-3
yid
inclusive code
Individual codes:
ydd
Eastren Yiddish
yih
Wastren Yiddish
Glottolog
yidd1255
Linguasphere
52-ACB-g = 52-ACB-ga (Wast) + 52-ACB-gb (East); totallin 11 varieties
Yiddish
ייִדיש
yidish
or
אידיש
idish
, literally "Jewish") is an
Ashkenazi Jewish
leid o hie German oreegin, spaken ootthrough the warld. It developpit as a fusion o German dialects wi
Ebreu
Aramaic
Slavic leids
an traces o
Romance leids
It is written in the
Ebreu alphabet
The leid oreiginatit in the Ashkenazi cultur that developpit frae aboot the
10t century
in the
Rhineland
an syne spreid till
Central
an
Eastern Europe
an hinderly tae ither continents. In the earliest remeenin mentions tae it, the leid is cawed
לשון־אַשכּנז
loshn-ashknez
= "Ashkenaz leid") an
טײַטש
taytsh
, a variant o
tiutsch
, the contemporar name for the leid itherweys spaken in the region o oreegin, nou cawed
Middle Hie German
; compare the modren
New High German
). In common usage, the language is forby cried
מאַמע־לשון
mame-loshn
, literally "mither tongue"), distinguishing it frae
Biblical Hebrew
whilk is termed
לשון־קודש
loshn-koydesh
, "haly tongue") an
Aramaic
. The term "Yiddish" didnae become the maist frequent uised designation in the leid's literatur till the
18t century
For a signeificant skare o its history, Yiddish wis the main spaken leid o the Ashkenazi Jews an ance spanned a braid
dialect continuum
frae
Wastren Yiddish
till three major groups athin
Eastren Yiddish
, namely
Litvish
, Poylish an Ukrainish. Eastren an Wastren Yiddish is maist parteilcuar distinguisht bi the conseitherable comprehension o wirds o
Slavic
oreegin in the Eastren
dialects
. While
Wastren Yiddish
haes few remainin speakers, Eastren dialects remeen in wide uise.
Yiddish is written an spaken in
Orthodox Jewish
commonties the warld ower. It is a hame language in maist
Hasidic
commonties, whaur it is the first leid learnt in bairnheid, uised in scuils an in mony social settins.
Yiddish is forby uised in the adjectival sense tae designate attributes o Ashkenazic cultur (for example,
Yiddish keukin
an
Yiddish muisic
).
References
eedit
edit soorce
Yiddish
at
Ethnologue
(18th ed., 2015)
Eastren Yiddish
at
Ethnologue
(18th ed., 2015)
Wastren Yiddish
at
Ethnologue
(18th ed., 2015)
Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013).
"Yiddish"
Glottolog
. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Introduction to Old Yiddish literature
, p. 72
, Baumgarten and Frakes, Oxford University Press, 2005
"Development of Yiddish over the ages"
, www.jewishgen.org
Oscar Levant
descrived
Cole Porter
's '
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
" as "ane o the maist
Yiddish
tunes eiver written" in maugre o "Cole Porter's genetic background" bein "completely alien tae ony Jewishness." Oscar Levant,
The Unimportance of Being Oscar
, Pocket Books 1969 (reprint of G.P. Putnam 1968), p. 32.
ISBN 0-671-77104-3
Freemit airtins
eedit
edit soorce
Yiddish edeetion
Wikipaedia
, the free encyclopaedia
Wikibooks haes a beuk on the topic o
Yiddish
Wikibooks haes a beuk on the topic o
Yiddish for Yeshivah Bachurim
Free Yiddish Dictionary
Archived
2021-02-26 at the
Wayback Machine
Verterbukh
– Yiddish Resources Online
Jewish Language Research Website: Yiddish
Archived
2006-02-08 at the
Wayback Machine
On-line Yiddish dictionary
Archived
2006-02-02 at the
Wayback Machine
A Dictionary o the Yiddish Leid
bi Alexander Harkavy, 1898 (frae Google Books)
Yiddish Typewriter
Archived
2005-12-10 at the
Wayback Machine
- interconverts Yiddish text in Hebrew script wi YIVO transliteration
WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue - Yiddish Sources
Academic portal for Yiddish Studies, includes an online bibliography.
'Hover & Hear' New York Yiddish pronunciations
Archived
2009-01-26 at the
Wayback Machine
, an compare wi equivalents in Inglis an ither Germanic leids.
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