distinctiveness. Linguistically, Yiddish is divided in distinct Eastern and Western dialects. While the Western dialects mostly died out in the 19th-century...

dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. Western Yiddish...

various Yiddish dialects. Whatever impact this may have on the discussion of standardized orthography, it becomes a significant factor when Yiddish is transliterated...

in significant dialects such as that of many contemporary Hasidim. As a Germanic language descended from Middle High German, Yiddish grammar is fairly...

varieties of Yemeni Arabic, while Yiddish, a Germanic language, shows a high degree of dissimilarity to modern German dialects. Due to continued liturgical...

marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Judeo-Arabic dialects (Judeo-Arabic: ערביה יהודיה, romanized: ‘Arabiya Yahūdiya; Arabic: عربية...

phonological variation among the various Yiddish dialects. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th...

Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...

Those languages were Jewish dialects of local languages, including Judaeo-Spanish (also called "Judezmo" and "Ladino"), Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic and Bukhori...

Spanish r), rather than uvular (the r common to several German and Yiddish dialects, or better known as the French r). /t/ and /d/ are more often realized...

but, in some respects, it resembles the dialects in southern Spain and South America, rather than the dialects of Central Spain. For example, it has yeísmo...

Slavic microlanguages Slovenian dialects Spanish dialects Swedish dialects Sri Lankan Tamil dialects Yiddish dialects Accent perception Chronolect Colloquialism...

perception of the status of a language or dialect. The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it...

constitute a dialectal continuum and some of the traditional Swedish dialects could equally be described as Danish (Scanian) or Norwegian dialects (Jämtlandic)...

Kiev-Polessian dialects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017258-5. Mark Louden (2000). "Contact-induced phonological change in Yiddish: Another look...

The Judeo-Iranian languages (or dialects) are a number of related Jewish variants of Iranian languages spoken throughout the formerly extensive realm of...

French, see Guttural R), depending on variations in the local dialects of German and Yiddish. In addition to geographical differences, there are differences...

higher regard because of it. The division between western and eastern dialects of Aramaic is clear among different Jewish communities. Targumim, translations...

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

originally spoke Western Yiddish, which had less Slavic influence than other Yiddish dialects. By the early 20th century, Yiddish was in decline in this...

Judeo-hybrid languages like Yiddish, Judeo-Spanish or the Judeo-Arabic languages. Judeo-hybrid languages were spoken dialects which mixed elements of the...

alveolar R at first, but the uvular R then became predominant in many Yiddish dialects. It is unclear whether this happened through independent developments...

free dictionary. Litvak may refer to: A Lithuanian Jew One of the Yiddish dialects associated with Jews of Lithuanian origin Litvak (surname) Litvin,...

Communities of Comtat Venaissin), New York, published by the author and the Yiddish Scientific Institute—YIVO, 1948. Blondheim, David S. 1928. Notes étymologiques...

Hebrew and Aramaic elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used the Hebrew alphabet to...

Shassagh Shassi Shuadit Yiddish dialects Eastern Galitzish Litvish Poylish Klezmer-loshn Western Judeo-Alsatian Lachoudisch Scots-Yiddish Zarphatic Philosophy...

Shassagh Shassi Shuadit Yiddish dialects Eastern Galitzish Litvish Poylish Klezmer-loshn Western Judeo-Alsatian Lachoudisch Scots-Yiddish Zarphatic Philosophy...

Grammatical and Lexical Study of Its Relations with Other Early Aramaic Dialects. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 67575204.[page needed] Choi, Jongtae...

(balabusta and baleboste) are due to the phonologies of different Yiddish dialects, where the pronunciation of אָ (komets alef) as /ɔ/ becomes /ʊ/ in...

independent dialect, the latter by contrast is not essentially a different thing from the language of Italy, or from the individual dialects of the different...