distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century...
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dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish...
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various Yiddish dialects. Whatever impact this may have on the discussion of standardized orthography, it becomes a significant factor when Yiddish is transliterated...
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phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th...
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marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Judeo-Arabic dialects (Judeo-Arabic: ערביה יהודיה, romanized: ‘Arabiya Yahūdiya; Arabic: عربية...
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in significant dialects such as that of many contemporary Hasidim. As a Germanic language descended from Middle High German, Yiddish grammar is fairly...
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Sephardi Hebrew (redirect from Mizrahi Hebrew dialects)
Spanish r), rather than uvular (the r common to several German and Yiddish dialects, or better known as the French r). /t/ and /d/ are more often realized...
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Jewish languages (redirect from Jewish dialects)
varieties of Yemeni Arabic, while Yiddish, a Germanic language, shows a high degree of dissimilarity to modern German dialects. Due to continued liturgical...
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Those languages were Jewish dialects of local languages, including Judaeo-Spanish (also called "Judezmo" and "Ladino"), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Bukhori...
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Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
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