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Yiddish  

Definition

  • Yiddish is a Germanic language, the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews in central and east Europe.Yiddish is traditionally written in a fully vocalised variety of Hebrew script. A transliteration into the Latin alphabet is quite often used.

Identifier

  • YID

Change note

  • Succeeds to JI retired

Notation

  • JI
  • yi
  • YI
  • yid

In other languages

  • идиш

    Bulgarian

  • jidiš

    Croatian

  • jidiš

    Czech

  • jiddisch

    Danish

  • Jiddisch

    Dutch

  • jidiši keel

    Estonian

  • jiddiš

    Finnish

  • yiddish

    French

  • Jiddisch

    German

  • γίντις

    Greek

  • jiddis

    Hungarian

  • jiddíska

    Icelandic

  • Giúdais

    Irish

  • yiddish

    Italian

  • jidišs

    Latvian

  • jidiš kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Јидиш

    Macedonian

  • Jiddixx

    Maltese

  • jiddisk

    Norwegian

  • jidysz

    Polish

  • yiddish

    Portuguese

  • idiş

    Romanian

  • и́диш

    Russian

  • Јидиш

    Serbian

  • jidiš

    Slovak

  • jidiš

    Slovenian

  • yidis

    Spanish

  • jiddisch

    Swedish

  • yidiş

    Turkish

  • їдиш

    Ukrainian

  • jidiš

    Upper Sorbian

  • ייִדיש

    Yiddish

  • yidish

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/YID

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