Yiddish

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Yiddish is a historical West Germanic language, written in the Hebrew alphabet and enriched with Hebrew and Slavic elements, traditionally spoken by Ashkenazi Jewish communities.

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Generate an image of Yiddish (Yiddish is a historical West Germanic language, written in the Hebrew alphabet and enriched with Hebrew and Slavic elements, traditionally spoken by Ashkenazi Jewish communities.)

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Statements (62)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish language ⓘ
West Germanic language ⓘ
diaspora language ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ
associatedWithReligion Judaism ⓘ
declineCausedBy Holocaust ⓘ
language shift to Hebrew ⓘ
language shift to local majority languages ⓘ
developedFrom Middle High German dialects ⓘ
linked to: Old High German

medieval German dialects ⓘ
experiencedDeclineDuring 20th century ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Judeo-German ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

Jüdisch-Deutsch ⓘ
Yidish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

ייִדיש ⓘ
hasComponent Aramaic vocabulary ⓘ
Germanic vocabulary ⓘ
Hebrew vocabulary ⓘ
Romance vocabulary ⓘ
Slavic vocabulary ⓘ
hasCulturalRole language of Jewish humor ⓘ
language of klezmer song lyrics ⓘ
vehicle of Ashkenazi Jewish culture ⓘ
hasDialects Eastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

Mideastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

Northeastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

Southeastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish

Western Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
hasGlottocode yidd1255 ⓘ
hasISO639-1Code yi ⓘ
hasISO639-2Code yid ⓘ
hasISO639-3Code yid ⓘ
hasMorphologicalInfluenceFrom German ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor I. L. Peretz ⓘ
Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ
Mendele Mocher Sforim ⓘ
Sholem Aleichem ⓘ
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Hebrew ⓘ
Slavic languages ⓘ
hasRevitalizationEffortsIn Europe ⓘ
Israel ⓘ
United States ⓘ
hasStandardForm Standard Yiddish orthography ⓘ
hasStandardizationBody YIVO Institute for Jewish Research ⓘ
hasSyntacticInfluenceFrom Slavic languages ⓘ
historicalRegion Ashkenaz ⓘ
linked to: Jews

Central Europe ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ
isLanguageOf Yiddish cinema ⓘ
Yiddish literature ⓘ
Yiddish press ⓘ
Yiddish theatre ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
isLiturgicalLanguageOf some Hasidic communities ⓘ
languageFamily Germanic languages ⓘ
Indo-European languages ⓘ
primaryScriptDirection right-to-left ⓘ
subfamily West Germanic languages ⓘ
taughtAt universities worldwide ⓘ
usedByCommunity Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora ⓘ
Haredi Jews ⓘ
Hasidic Jews ⓘ
linked to: Haredi Jews
writingSystem Hebrew alphabet ⓘ

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Referenced by (300)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jews → usesLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
Yiddish → hasAlternativeName → Yidish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasAlternativeName → Judeo-German ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasDialects → Eastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasDialects → Western Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasDialects → Northeastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasDialects → Mideastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → hasDialects → Southeastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Yiddish → isLanguageOf → Yiddish theatre ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Jewish diaspora → hasLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
Old High German → influenced → Yiddish ⓘ
Germanic languages → includesLanguage → Yiddish language ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
German → closelyRelatedTo → Yiddish ⓘ
Hellman → usedInLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
West Germanic languages → includesLanguage → Yiddish language ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Proto-Germanic → ancestorOf → Yiddish ⓘ
Haredi Jews → languageUsed → Yiddish ⓘ
Golus → hasLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
Jewish studies → hasSubdiscipline → Yiddish language ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Kraków Ghetto → hasLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
Edward Sapir → languageSpoken → Yiddish ⓘ
Jewish Americans → language → Yiddish ⓘ
Irminonic languages → includes → Yiddish ⓘ
Goldberg → languageOfOrigin → Yiddish ⓘ
Rubin → languageOfOrigin → Yiddish ⓘ
Kempner → hasLanguageOfOrigin → Yiddish ⓘ
Ben Shahn → languageSpoken → Yiddish ⓘ
Aleph → usedIn → Yiddish language ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish
Mem → usedInWritingSystem → Yiddish ⓘ
Dalet → usedInLanguage → Yiddish ⓘ
Garfinkle → languageOfOrigin → Yiddish ⓘ
Kresy → language → Yiddish ⓘ
Brin → languageOfOrigin → Yiddish ⓘ
Weiss → hasLanguageUsage → Yiddish ⓘ
Fishke the Lame → languageVariant → Eastern Yiddish ⓘ
linked to: Yiddish