Yiddish language: Difference between revisions
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imported>Michel van der Hoek m (Jiddish moved to Jiddish language: All language pages ought to have the name "language" in the title.) |
imported>Steven Clark Bennett m (Jiddish language moved to Yiddish language: This is the standard spelling of this word in English.) |
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Jiddish is a West-Germanic language commonly spoken by people of Jewish heritage. Though usually written in the Hebrew alphabet, from a language typological standpoint it is a dialect of German, with lexical admixtures from Hebrew language and, at least in some dialects, phonological innovations adopted from Slavic, esp. Polish. The name "Jiddish" derives from the southwestern German dialectal pronunciation of Standard German Jüdisch, meaning "Jewish."