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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Fehr hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Resnick hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Sacks hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Silverberg languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Kaplan languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Infeld hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Yevanic distinctFrom Yiddish
Goldberg hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Slovo languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Kushner languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Maharil languageOfWorkOrName Yiddish
this entity surface form: Judeo-German
Kurtzberg languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Lida languageUsedInPast Yiddish
Bloom usedInLanguage Yiddish
Shahn hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Menken languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Schneider usedInLanguage Yiddish
Kovno usedInLanguage Yiddish
Kallen usedInLanguage Yiddish
Ukraine–Poland hasLanguage Yiddish
South Brooklyn hasLanguage Yiddish
Hurwitz hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Hebr usedForWriting Yiddish
this entity surface form: Yiddish language
Garfinkel hasEtymologicalOrigin Yiddish
this entity surface form: Yiddish language
Szmul Asz literaryLanguage Yiddish
subject surface form: Sholem Asch
Asch languageOfOrigin Yiddish
The Shtetl literaryLanguage Yiddish
this entity surface form: Eastern Yiddish
Silverman languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Landau languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Fishke appearsInLanguage Yiddish
Meyer hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Warhaftig languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Leib usedInLanguage Yiddish
Dobkin languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Eleanor Marx languageSpoken Yiddish
Vilner languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Avraham Stern languageSpoken Yiddish