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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Lampert hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Dror hasLanguageOfActivity Yiddish
Fun mayne giter language Yiddish
Kurtzman hasLanguageOfOrigin Yiddish
Wexler languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Farber languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Stern languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Hoffer languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Isaac Leib languageOfExpression Yiddish
subject surface form: Isaac Leib Peretz
Proskuriv hasLanguage Yiddish
Yadwiga languageOfWork Yiddish
Herman Broder is married to Yadwiga languageOfWork Yiddish
subject surface form: Herman Broder
Icek languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Okun usedInLanguage Yiddish
Nokh alemen (When All Is Said and Done) language Yiddish
subject surface form: Nokh alemen
Kiner languageOfOrigin Yiddish
Lefschetz languageOfOrigin Yiddish