symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...

led to an increase in formal Yiddish-language education, more uniform orthography, and to the 1925 founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, YIVO....

from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses...

Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...

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...

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...

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...

graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block: Note: In Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, yud-ḥiriq (יִ‎), pronounced /i/, can be optionally...

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...

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...