Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century due to Jewish language assimilation into mainstream culture, the Eastern dialects were very vital until most of Eastern European Jewry was wiped out by the Shoah.
The Northeastern dialects of Eastern Yiddish were dominant in 20th-century Yiddish culture and academia, but in the 21st-century, since Yiddish is largely dying out everywhere due to language assimilation, the Southern dialects of Yiddish that are preserved by many Hasidic communities, have become the most commonly spoken form of Yiddish.
distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century...
dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish...
various Yiddishdialects. Whatever impact this may have on the discussion of standardized orthography, it becomes a significant factor when Yiddish is transliterated...
in significant dialects such as that of many contemporary Hasidim. As a Germanic language descended from Middle High German, Yiddish grammar is fairly...
varieties of Yemeni Arabic, while Yiddish, a Germanic language, shows a high degree of dissimilarity to modern German dialects. Due to continued liturgical...
phonological variation among the various Yiddishdialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th...
Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
Spanish r), rather than uvular (the r common to several German and Yiddishdialects, or better known as the French r). /t/ and /d/ are more often realized...
Those languages were Jewish dialects of local languages, including Judaeo-Spanish (also called "Judezmo" and "Ladino"), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Bukhori...
language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which...
perception of the status of a language or dialect. The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it...
Slavic microlanguages Slovenian dialects Spanish dialects Swedish dialects Sri Lankan Tamil dialectsYiddishdialects Accent perception Chronolect Colloquialism...
constitute a dialectal continuum and some of the traditional Swedish dialects could equally be described as Danish (Scanian) or Norwegian dialects (Jämtlandic)...
Kiev-Polessian dialects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017258-5. Mark Louden (2000). "Contact-induced phonological change in Yiddish: Another look...
French, see Guttural R), depending on variations in the local dialects of German and Yiddish. In addition to geographical differences, there are differences...
contexts via Yiddish, and may be, therefore, simply regarded as Yiddish. (This problem is illustrated in the list of English words of Yiddish origin.)[citation...
Judeo-hybrid languages like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish or the Judeo-Arabic languages. Judeo-hybrid languages were spoken dialects which mixed elements of the...
alveolar R at first, but the uvular R then became predominant in many Yiddishdialects. It is unclear whether this happened through independent developments...
originally spoke Western Yiddish, which had less Slavic influence than other Yiddishdialects. By the early 20th century, Yiddish was in decline in this...
free dictionary. Litvak may refer to: A Lithuanian Jew One of the Yiddishdialects associated with Jews of Lithuanian origin Litvak (surname) Litvin,...
Hebrew and Aramaic elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used the Hebrew alphabet to...
Grammatical and Lexical Study of Its Relations with Other Early Aramaic Dialects. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 67575204.[page needed] Choi, Jongtae...
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