yidish

See also: yídish

Ladino

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

yidish m (Hebrew spelling יידיש)[1]

  1. Yiddish (a West Germanic, or more specifically High German, language that developed from Middle High German dialects, with an admixture of vocabulary from multiple source languages including Hebrew-Aramaic, Romance, Slavic, English, etc., and mostly written in Hebrew characters which is used mainly among Ashkenazic Jews from central and eastern Europe)
    • 1999, Matilda Koén-Sarano, קורס לספרדית־יהודית (לאדינו) למתחילים, Merkaz Eliacher, Universidad Ben-Gurion en el Negev, page xv:
      En el 1996 la Knesset (Parlamento) de Israel aprovó una ley para la konservasión de las linguas i las kulturas del yidish i del ladino, i establesió la kreasión de dos Autoridades Nasionales para sus konservasión.
      In 1996 the Knesset (parliament) of Israel approved a lay for the conservation of the languages of cultures of Yiddish and Judezmo, and it established the creation of two national authorities for their conservation.

References

  1. ^ yidish”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim