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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.
Dear Eliezg, a little note, maybe off-theme: "German - немец - in Russian comes from the word for "dumb-mute" or "mutterer" => yes, in Russian-lingual literature you can see this etymology, but first it is not offensive because it is known only to a limited number of scholars, and common folks do not know that non-transparent version of ...
Cyrillization of German is the conversion of text written in the German Latin alphabet into the Cyrillic alphabet, according to rules based on pronunciation. Because German orthography is largely phonemic, transcription into Cyrillic follows relatively simple rules. The most common cyrillization method is the one based on the Russian Cyrillic ...
In some cases English borrowings are gaining popularity over older loanwords from other Western European languages. For example, the English word "sandwich" competes with the German word "butterbrot" in Russian: an open sandwich would normally be a "бутерброд" in Russian, unless it is a small one, a canapé ("канапе").
Mennonite Low German word order: Jehaun haft dän Desch jemoakt (John has the table made). English word order: John has made the table. Mennonite Low German, like High German, has been referred to as verb-second (V2) word order. In embedded clauses, words relating to time or space can be placed at the beginning of the sentence, but then the ...
German is the second most commonly used scientific language [71] [better source needed] as well as the third most widely used language on websites after English and Russian. [72] Deutsche Welle (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə]; "German Wave" in German), or DW, is Germany's public international broadcaster. The service is available ...
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I speak (am speaking, do speak) ты говори́шь: you speak (are speaking, do speak) он/она́/оно́ говори́т: he/she/it speaks (is speaking, does speak) мы говори́м: we speak (are speaking, do speak) вы говори́те: you (plural/formal) speak (are speaking, do speak) они говоря́т