What is the Yiddish language? Detailed answer

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What is the Yiddish language?

One of the most curious languages in the world is Hebrew, which is spoken by Jews all over the world. Before World War II, 8 million Jews spoke or understood Yiddish. Isn't Hebrew the language of the Jews, the oldest language of the Old Testament? Is.

Hebrew is the language of scholars, religion, most religious literary works are written in it, it is also used by the people of Israel today. There are many scholars of philology who consider Yiddish only a dialect spoken by the uneducated sections of society.

In fact, Yiddish originally developed in Germany. About a thousand years ago, many Jews from France and northern Italy began to settle in West Germany. As a result of the mixing of languages (basic German, as well as Italian and French brought in), a new dialect or language began to develop, and thus Yiddish was born. The word itself, by the way, comes from the German "Yudish".

After the XNUMXth century, many Jews migrated to Poland and neighboring countries. There they created a variety of Yiddish based on local languages. And those who remained in Germany improved classical Yiddish. Yiddish uses Hebrew characters, and many words come from that language, but many are completely different. It is curious that for a long time this language - Yiddish - was mainly used by women.

This happened because among the Jews only men were scientists, and they studied Hebrew. Therefore, Yiddish began to be called the "mother language". Probably no other language uses as many words from the local language as Yiddish does. For example, most people who speak Yiddish use English words for carpet, hat, floor, dress, etc. But in the US, on the contrary, many non-Jews use Yiddish words, such as "schmaltz", meaning excessive emotionality .

Author: Likum A.

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