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    symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...
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    led to an increase in formal Yiddish-language education, more uniform orthography, and to the 1925 founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, YIVO....
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  • from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses...
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    Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
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    Rafe (section Yiddish)
    old-style Irish alphabet. It retained some currency in Yiddish and Ladino. In Yiddish orthography, the rafe distinguishes פ‎ /p/ from פֿ‎ /f/ and in words...
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  • is a shva naḥ on the letter ד‎, and סִדְּרָה is written סידרה. In Yiddish orthography the ḥiriq is placed under the yud ⟨יִ‎⟩. The following table contains...
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    distinctive letter in Yiddish orthography, in a play on a Yiddish alphabet song. This particular letter (אָ) is also used to represent Yiddish on Duolingo, replacing...
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  • graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block: Note: In Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, yud-ḥiriq (יִ‎), pronounced /i/, can be optionally...
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  • Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...
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  • Aleph (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
    but that digraph is not permitted at the beginning of a word in Yiddish orthography, so it is preceded by a silent aleph. Some publications use a silent...
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