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    symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...
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    led to an increase in formal Yiddish-language education, more uniform orthography, and to the 1925 founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, YIVO....
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  • from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses...
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    Rafe (section Yiddish)
    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...
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    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...
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    Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
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  • 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...
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  • graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block: Note: In Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, yud-ḥiriq (יִ‎), pronounced /i/, can be optionally...
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  • Aleph (section Yiddish)
    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...
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  • of the letter ayin ע‎, also used for this purpose much later in Yiddish orthography. In pre-exilic Hebrew, there was a significant development of the...
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  • 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...
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  • and segol which contain a shva next to it. In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has two uses. The combination of pasekh with the...
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  • in Yiddish) a rafé placed above the letter unambiguously denotes the fricative variant: בֿ = /v/, כֿ = /χ/ and פֿ = /f/. In Modern Hebrew orthography, the...
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  • Elye Falkovitsh (category Yiddish–Russian translators)
    central in molding the standards of Soviet Yiddish in regards to lexicon, grammar, style, and orthography . After advocating the study of the Pentateuch...
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    Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second...
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    Yiddish is a Germanic language with significant Hebrew and Slavic influence, written with a variant of the Hebrew alphabet (see Yiddish orthography)...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...
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  • Daytshmerish (category German orthography)
    (דײַטשמעריש) is a Yiddish term for Germanized orthography of Yiddish. Daytshmerish Yiddish is spelled אידיש, iddish instead of יידיש‎, Yiddish. The term was...
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  • / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is...
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  • Rotanese orthography enforces the standard capitalization rule (e.g.: Chamorro). In several Germanic languages, including German and romanized Yiddish, ch...
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  • that is, c, g, h, j, and s circumflex, and u breve. Standard Esperanto orthography uses the Latin script. The letters have approximately the sound values...
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    the Rashi script and its cursive form Solitreo have been the main orthographies for writing Judaeo-Spanish. However, today it is mainly written with...
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  • ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic...
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  • comparison of the IPA system with those used in learners' materials. Irish orthography is the set of conventions used to write Irish. A spelling reform in the...
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  • Yodh (section Yiddish)
    Judaism, and its place in the name of God. In Yiddish, the letter yod is used for several orthographic purposes in native words: Alone, a single yod י...
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  • Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
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  • Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet. The spelling system is issued by government decree and is compulsory for all government documentation and educational...
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  • Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...
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  • Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses 21 letters of the 26-letter Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The modern Latvian orthography is based on Latin script adapted to phonetic principles, following the...
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