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Facts about Eastern Yiddish[edit | edit source]

Language code (ISO 639-3): ydd
Autonyms (how to write "Eastern Yiddish" in Eastern Yiddish): ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, ייִדיש-טײַטש, Yidish-Taytsh
Other names for "Eastern Yiddish": Judeo-German, Yiddish
The Eastern Yiddish language is spoken in: Ukraine

Yiddish is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic; most varieties also have substantial influence from Slavic languages, and the vocabulary contains traces of influence from Romance languages.[8][9][10] Yiddish writing uses the Hebrew alphabet.

In the 1990s, there were around 1.5–2 million speakers of Yiddish, mostly Hasidic and Haredi Jews.[citation needed] In 2012, the Center for Applied Linguistics estimated the number of speakers to have had a worldwide peak at 11 million (prior to World War II), with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000.[11] An estimate from Rutgers University gives 250,000 American speakers, 250,000 Israeli speakers, and 100,000 in the rest of the world (for a total of 600,000).

Sources[edit | edit source]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish

Yiddish Dictionaries[edit | edit source]

• YiddishDictionaryOnline (YDO): Yiddish-English Dictionary

• A Yiddish cultural dictionary for the 21^st century, by Dovid Katz

• University of Kentucky: Yiddish-English dictionary (Latin characters)

• Verterbukh.org: Yiddish-English & French dictionary (free registration required)

• YiDD: Yiddish dialect dictionary

• Speaking of Yiddish: some Yiddish words used in English, by Hugh Rawson (2013): I & II

• Groyser verterbukh fun der Yidisher shprakh: Great dictionary of the Yiddish language, by Yehudah Yofe & Mark Yudel (1961): I & II - III - IV

• Yiddish-English dictionary & English-Yiddish by Uriel Weinreich (1968) + another version

• Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary by Alexander Harkavy (1928)

• English-Yiddish Dictionary & Yiddish-English, by Alexander Harkavy + another version (1910)

• English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary by Paul Abelson (1915) A-G G-R S-Z

• Sieben Sprachen Wörterbuch: German-Polish-Russian-Byelorussian-Lithuanian-Latvian-Yiddish dictionary, edited by the Oberbefehlshaber Ost (Supreme Commander of all German Forces in the East) (1918)

• Русско-еврейский (идиш) словарь: Russian-Yiddish dictionary (1984)

• Lessons in conversational Yiddish (1967)

• Yidisher gramen-leksikon: Yiddish rhyming lexicon, by Nahum Stutchkoff (1931)

• Shemot Devarim: Old Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German glossary (1542)

• Affective borrowing from Yiddish in colloquial American English by Jacob Ornstein-Galicia, in Meta, journal des traducteurs (1992)

• Loan words in the English of Modern Orthodox Jews: Yiddish or Hebrew? by Sarah Benor (2000)

• Yiddish loanwords in Dutch by Jenia Gutova (2010)