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...Yiddish ( yidish or idish, literally "Jewish") is a non-territorial High German language of Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. Yiddish is conventionally written in the Hebrew alphabet. Read full entry
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I read that the Yiddish How is the Yiddish language
dying and why?
Is it going to try to
increase?
I hate to see the Yiddish
language die out because its
such a beautiful language GEEZ
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I agree...Yiddish is a very beautiful language. The main reason it is dying out is the Holocaust. Six million European Jews, many of them from shtetls, were wiped out. The state of Israel took modern conversational Hebrew as its official language. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer Jews speaking Yiddish. Here is a great link on the subject: http://www.jewfaq.org/yiddish. htm All the best. |
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How many people here is If so, is German, in any of
its dialect, mutually
intelligible with Yiddish?
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Well, I don't speak Yiddish, but I can tell you alittle about it. I believe that German is, without doubt, a Germanic language and so is Yiddish. One of the major differences of these two languages is the way they are written. German used the Latin alphabet and Yiddish uses the Hebrew alphabet. I guess you could pretty much say that Yiddish is just German words written in Hebrew script. So, the answer is yes, German, in some ways, is mutually intelligible with Yiddish. |
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How can I learn to speak the I live near a big
Chassidic/Hasidic Jewish
community in New York and they
always speak Yiddish. I'm
interested in learning about
their teachings and maybe
becoming Hasidic. But how can
I learn how to speak Yiddish
to communicate like they do
together? What is the best way
to learn to speak it? I'm a
secular Jew interested in
becoming more religious.
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one way is to take classes at a college or through something like the 92nd street Y, or through a private tutor. the other way is immersion. live amongst them and pick it up as you go along. i think that learning yiddish, though, is separate from any interest in increasing religious observance. |
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