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Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.
Southeastern Yiddish (Ukrainish or "Ukrainian" Yiddish) was spoken in Volhynia (Volinyer), Podolia (Podolyer), and Bessarabia (Besaraber, in Romania). [7] [nb 1] Ukrainian Yiddish was the basis for standard theatre Yiddish, while Lithuanian Yiddish was the basis of standard literary and academic Yiddish. [7] [nb 2]
Currently, it is spoken by approximately 200,000 Israelis, mostly in Hasidic communities. Yiddish is a Germanic language, but incorporates elements of Hebrew and Slavic languages. Yiddish saw a decline in its prevalence among the Israeli population in the early statehood of Israel, due to its banning in theatres, movies and other cultural ...
Spoken Language and Hebrew proficiency, by Sex in Israel according to the 1948 Census Israel: Day to Day Spoken Language, Among Non-Hebrew Speakers in the Jewish Population (1948) By the time Israel was established in 1948, 80.9% of Jews who had been born in Palestine spoke Hebrew as their only language in daily life, and another 14.2% of ...
Within Europe, the three most prevalent West Germanic languages are English, German, and Dutch. Frisian, spoken by about 450,000 people, constitutes a fourth distinct variety of West Germanic. The language family also includes Afrikaans, Yiddish, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Hunsrik, and Scots.
The language traditionally spoken by the Jews of Alsace was a dialect of Yiddish, Judeo-Alsatian (Yédisch-Daïtsch), [4] [5] originally a mixture of Middle High German, Old Alsatian, Medieval Hebrew and Aramaic, and largely indistinguishable from Western Yiddish.
I’ve spoken Yiddish in a couple of things now — and I don’t [actually] speak Yiddish — but there’s some music to the language that reminds me of French, which I do speak. But I had a ...
Map showing percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire c. 1905.. Litvaks (Yiddish: ליטװאַקעס) or Lita'im (Hebrew: לִיטָאִים) are Jews with roots in the territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania (covering present-day Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, the northeastern Suwałki and Białystok regions of Poland, as well as adjacent areas of modern-day ...