(contracted from Yidish-daytsh, i e , Jewish-German) Language used by *Ashkenazi Jews Yiddish is related to German, but has many Slavic, Hebrew, and Aramaic words, and is written in the Hebrew script Before the Holocaust, there were estimated to be 11 million speakers
A Germanic dialect written with Hebrew characters and the language of the shtetl and other Jewish communities in Central and Eastern Europe
a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence
~ The "international language" of Ashkenazic Jews, based primarily on German with words taken from Hebrew and many Slavic languages, and written in the Hebrew Alphabet
A language based on medieval Rhineland German used by Jews in eastern, northern, and central Europe and in areas to which Jews from these regions migrated It also contains elements of Hebrew, Russian, and Polish, and it is commonly written in Hebrew characters
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of yiddiş in Turkish Turkish dictionary