Yiddish

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Jewish language West Germanic language diaspora language

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.

Aliases (10)

Statements (62)

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 → medieval German dialects →
experiencedDeclineDuring	20th century →
hasAlternativeName	Judeo-German → Jüdisch-Deutsch → Yidish → 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 → Mideastern Yiddish → Northeastern Yiddish → Southeastern Yiddish → Western 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 → Central Europe → Eastern Europe →
isLanguageOf	Yiddish cinema → Yiddish literature → Yiddish press → Yiddish theatre →
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 →
writingSystem	Hebrew alphabet →

Referenced by (68)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora → Contemporary Judaism → Golus → Isaac Bashevis Singer → Jewish diaspora → Kraków Ghetto →	hasLanguage
Avraham Katznelson → Ben Shahn → Chaim Weizmann → Edward Sapir → Menachem Begin → Samuel Goldwyn →	languageSpoken
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew → Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew ("Judaeo-German") → Dalet → Gimel → Hellman → Lamed →	usedInLanguage
Yiddish ("Eastern Yiddish") → Yiddish ("Western Yiddish") → Yiddish ("Northeastern Yiddish") → Yiddish ("Mideastern Yiddish") → Yiddish ("Southeastern Yiddish") →	hasDialects
Kempner → Marks → Minsky → Moskovitz → Unger →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
Brin → Garfinkle → Goldberg → Rosenbaum → Rubin →	languageOfOrigin
Bukovina → If Not Higher → Jewish Americans → Kresy →	language
Proto-Germanic → Proto-West Germanic →	ancestorOf
Yiddish ("Yidish") → Yiddish ("Judeo-German") →	hasAlternativeName
Germanic languages ("Yiddish language") → West Germanic languages ("Yiddish language") →	includesLanguage
Silesian language → Wisconsin English →	influencedBy
Sholem Asch → Sholem Rabinovich →	languageOfWorkOrName
Jews → Yiddish theater →	usesLanguage
High German consonant shift →	affectsLanguage
Google Translate →	availableLanguage
German →	closelyRelatedTo
Weiss →	hasLanguageUsage
Leoncin →	hasMinorityLanguage
Irminonic languages →	hasNotableLanguage
Jewish studies ("Yiddish language") →	hasSubdiscipline
Irminonic languages →	includes
Old High German →	influenced
Yiddish ("Yiddish theatre") →	isLanguageOf
Musar movement →	languageOfEarlyTexts
Haredi Jews →	languageUsed
Fishke the Lame ("Eastern Yiddish") →	languageVariant
Yiddish modernism →	mainLanguage
Judeo-Iranian languages →	sharesFeatureWith
Hebrew alphabet →	usedForLanguage
Aleph ("Yiddish language") →	usedIn
Mem →	usedInWritingSystem
Yiddish literature →	writtenInLanguage