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Writing system: Hebrew alphabet, Latin alphabet. Status: official language in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the southeast of the Russian Federation. Recognised minority language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
In its 1,000-plus-year history, the Yiddish language has been called many things, including the tender name mameloshen (mother tongue), the adversarial moniker zhargon (jargon) and the more matter-of-fact Judeo-German. What is Yiddish? Literally speaking, Yiddish means “Jewish.”
Yiddish language is now widely studied in the non-Jewish and academic worlds. - Four Stages of Development. - Role in Jewish History. - Culture in Eastern Europe. - The Death of Yiddish... - ... And its Resurrection. The Development of Yiddish: Four Stages. Linguists have divided the evolution of Yiddish into four amorphous periods.
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.
Yiddish is the historic language of Ashkenazic (Central and East European) Jewry, and is the third principal literary language in Jewish history, after classical Hebrew and (Jewish) Aramaic.
• Both Yiddish and Hebrew are spoken and written primarily by Jews, and are the most widely spoken Jewish languages in the world. • The two languages share the same alphabet. • Both languages are read from right to left.
Yiddish | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Lea Schäfer. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.946. Published online: 22 March 2023. Summary. The Yiddish language is directly linked to the culture and destiny of the Jewish population of Central and Eastern Europe.
