Yiddish

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish language
West Germanic language
diaspora language
associatedWithEthnicGroup Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
surface form: Ashkenazi Jews
associatedWithReligion Judaism
declineCausedBy Holocaust
language shift to Hebrew
language shift to local majority languages
developedFrom Old High German
surface form: Middle High German dialects

medieval German dialects
experiencedDeclineDuring 20th century
hasAlternativeName Yiddish
surface form: Judeo-German

Jüdisch-Deutsch
Yiddish
surface form: 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 Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Eastern Yiddish

Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Mideastern Yiddish

Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Northeastern Yiddish

Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Southeastern Yiddish

Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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 of America
surface form: United States
hasStandardForm Standard Yiddish orthography
hasStandardizationBody YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
hasSyntacticInfluenceFrom Slavic languages
historicalRegion Jews
surface form: Ashkenaz

Central Europe
Eastern Europe
isLanguageOf Yiddish cinema
Yiddish literature
Yiddish press
Yiddish self-linksurface differs
surface form: Yiddish theatre
isLiturgicalLanguageOf some Hasidic communities
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
primaryScriptDirection right-to-left
subfamily West Germanic languages
taughtAt universities worldwide
usedByCommunity Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
Haredi Jews
Haredi Jews
surface form: Hasidic Jews
writingSystem Hebrew alphabet

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If Not Higher language Yiddish
Gimel usedInLanguage Yiddish
Lamed usedInLanguage Yiddish
Ashkenazi cursive Hebrew usedInLanguage Yiddish
this entity surface form: Judaeo-German
Yiddish theater usesLanguage Yiddish
Rosenbaum languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Bukovina language Yiddish
Leoncin hasMinorityLanguage Yiddish
Singer hasLanguage Yiddish
subject surface form: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Marks hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Minsky hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Unger hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Eich hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Steinberg languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Bashevis languageOfWriting Yiddish
Isak hasLanguageOfUse Yiddish
Pinsker hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Cohen languageOfUse Yiddish
Leonard Nimoy languageSpoken Yiddish
Levi Eshkol languageSpoken Yiddish
Karp hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Leibowitz languageOfOrigin Yiddish
the Mob's Accountant language Yiddish
subject surface form: Meyer Lansky
Bernstein languageOfUse Yiddish
Levin hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Borstein languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Oshpitsin hasLanguageVariant Yiddish
Sanz languageOfCommunity Yiddish
Lithuanian Jewry developedDialect Yiddish
this entity surface form: Lithuanian Yiddish
Shulman hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Zakheim languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Rosofsky languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Bloch usedInLanguage Yiddish
Breyer hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Press hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Begin hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Lerner languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Lurie languageOfOrigin Yiddish