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ייִדיש

[ˈjɪdɪʃ]

name

LanguageYiddish

Meaning
  1. Yiddish, a spoken language of the Ashkenazi Jewish people.
  2. Yiddish
  3. A language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jewish people, written in Hebrew characters.
Examples

אין סאָװעטן־פֿאַרבאַנד איז ייִדיש דערקלערט געװאָרן ווי „די‟ ייִדישע שפּראַך, אַנטקעגן העברעיִש, װאָס איז געװאָרן טריף־פּסול װי די שפּראַך פֿון רעליגיע און ציוניזם.

In the Soviet Union Yiddish was declared to be "the" Jewish language, opposed to Hebrew, which became anathema as the language of religion and Zionism.

Pronunciationˈjɪdɪʃ

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) — Wave 8 (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.