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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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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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