What is yiddish?

Answer 1

Answer #1:

Yiddish is a language derived form medieval German combined with Hebrew

and Aramaic and first spoken by the Wist Jews. It is written using the Hebrew

alephbet.

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Answer #2:

Yiddish is the "Patois" of languages of every eastern European country

with any significant Jewish population during the past 900 years. It's experiencing a resurgence

today.

Answer 2

Yiddish is a language used by Jews in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages, has 200,000 speakers in US, Israel and Russia.

Answer 3

Yes, Yiddish is one of dozens of Jewish languages, and the most widely spoken Jewish language in Europe, up until the 20th Century.

Yiddish is a dialect of low German, combined with 11 other languages, and it is written with a variation of the Hebrew alphabet, though it is not related to Hebrew.

Here are some other Jewish languages:

1. Hebrew
2. Aramaic
3. Ladino
   
4. Judeo-Arabic
5. Judeo-Berber
6. Kayla (Qwara)
7. Kaïliña
8. Yeshivish
9. Klezmer-loshn
10. Scots Yiddish
11. Shuadit
12. Zarphatic
13. Bagitto
14. Catalanic
15. Knaanic
16. Yevanic (Judeo-Greek)
17. Dzhidi
18. Bukhori
19. Juhuri language
20. Krymchak
21. Karaim language
22. Gruzinic