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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. It originates from 9th century [10] : 2 Central Europe, providing the ...

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    Yiddish is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originates from 9th century Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew and to some extent Aramaic. Most varieties of Yiddish include elements of Slavic languages and the vocabulary contains traces of Romance languages ...

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  4. Yiddish is a language used by some Jews. At first, it was a dialect of German that Jews began to use in Europe about 1000 years ago. It was and still is used in the United States, especially in New York City, and other countries that now have Jews. Most Yiddish words come from German, but many words are also from Hebrew and Slavic languages ...

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  5. The Northeastern dialects of Eastern Yiddish were dominant in 20th-century Yiddish culture and academia, but in the 21st-century, since Yiddish is largely dying out everywhere due to language assimilation, the Southern dialects of Yiddish that are preserved by many Hasidic communities, have become the most commonly spoken form of Yiddish.

  6. Yiddish ( ייִדיש) Yiddish (. ייִדיש. ) Yiddish is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries. The name Yiddish is probably an abbreviated version of ייִדיש־טײַטש ( yidish-taytsh ), which means "Jewish German".

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