Yiddish leid

Yiddish
ייִדיש‎, יידיש‎ or אידיש‎ yidish/idish
Pronunciation	[ˈjɪdɪʃ] or [ˈɪd ɪʃ]
Native tae	Central, Eastren an Wsstren Europe
Region	Europe, Israel, North Americae, ither regions wi Jewish populations
Ethnicity	Ashkenazi Jews
Native speakers	(1.5 million citit 1986–1991 + hauf undatit)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Elbe Germanic Heich German Yiddish
Writin seestem	Ebreu alphabet (Yiddish orthografie)
Offeecial status
Recognised minority leid in	Bosnie an Herzegovinae Israel Netherlands Poland Romanie Swaden Ukraine
Regulatit bi	Na formal bouks YIVO de facto
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	yi
ISO 639-2	yid
ISO 639-3	yid – inclusive code Individual codes: ydd – Eastren Yiddish yih – Wastren Yiddish
Glottolog	yidd1255
Linguasphere	52-ACB-g = 52-ACB-ga (Wast) + 52-ACB-gb (East); totallin 11 varieties

Yiddish (ייִדיש yidish or אידיש idish, literally "Jewish") is an Ashkenazi Jewish leid o hie German oreegin, spaken ootthrough the warld. It developpit as a fusion o German dialects wi Ebreu, Aramaic, Slavic leids an traces o Romance leids. It is written in the Ebreu alphabet.

The leid oreiginatit in the Ashkenazi cultur that developpit frae aboot the 10t century in the Rhineland an syne spreid till Central an Eastern Europe an hinderly tae ither continents. In the earliest remeenin mentions tae it, the leid is cawed לשון־אַשכּנז (loshn-ashknez = "Ashkenaz leid") an טײַטש (taytsh, a variant o tiutsch, the contemporar name for the leid itherweys spaken in the region o oreegin, nou cawed Middle Hie German; compare the modren New High German Deutsch). In common usage, the language is forby cried מאַמע־לשון (mame-loshn, literally "mither tongue"), distinguishing it frae Biblical Hebrew whilk is termed לשון־קודש (loshn-koydesh, "haly tongue") an Aramaic. The term "Yiddish" didnae become the maist frequent uised designation in the leid's literatur till the 18t century.

For a signeificant skare o its history, Yiddish wis the main spaken leid o the Ashkenazi Jews an ance spanned a braid dialect continuum frae Wastren Yiddish till three major groups athin Eastren Yiddish, namely Litvish, Poylish an Ukrainish. Eastren an Wastren Yiddish is maist parteilcuar distinguisht bi the conseitherable comprehension o wirds o Slavic oreegin in the Eastren dialects. While Wastren Yiddish haes few remainin speakers, Eastren dialects remeen in wide uise.

Yiddish is written an spaken in Orthodox Jewish commonties the warld ower. It is a hame language in maist Hasidic commonties, whaur it is the first leid learnt in bairnheid, uised in scuils an in mony social settins.

Yiddish is forby uised in the adjectival sense tae designate attributes o Ashkenazic cultur (for example, Yiddish keukin an Yiddish muisic).

Freemit airtins

• Free Yiddish Dictionary
• Verterbukh – Yiddish Resources Online
• Jewish Language Research Website: Yiddish Archived 2006-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
• On-line Yiddish dictionary Archived 2006-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
• A Dictionary o the Yiddish Leid bi Alexander Harkavy, 1898 (frae Google Books)
• Yiddish Typewriter - interconverts Yiddish text in Hebrew script wi YIVO transliteration
• WWW Virtual Library History Central Catalogue - Yiddish Sources Academic portal for Yiddish Studies, includes an online bibliography.
• 'Hover & Hear' New York Yiddish pronunciations Archived 2009-01-26 at the Wayback Machine, an compare wi equivalents in Inglis an ither Germanic leids.