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In 2014, YIVO stated that "most people who speak Yiddish in their daily lives are Hasidim and other Haredim", whose population was estimated at the time to be between 500,000 and 1 million. [19] A 2021 estimate from Rutgers University was that there were 250,000 American speakers, 250,000 Israeli speakers, and 100,000 in the rest of the world ...
Ukrainian Yiddish was the basis for standard theatre Yiddish, while Lithuanian Yiddish was the basis of standard literary and academic Yiddish. [7] [nb 2] About three-quarters of contemporary Yiddish speakers speak Southern Yiddish varieties, the majority speaking Polish Yiddish. [7]
Yiddish is a Jewish language developed in Germany and Eastern Europe. ... An estimated 315 million people speak a Slavic language, [26] ...
In Europe, the Orthodox community in Antwerp, Belgium, is widely described as the last shtetl, composed of about 12,000 people. [14] [15] The Gateshead, United Kingdom Orthodox community is also sometimes called a shtetl. [16] [17] Brno, Czech Republic, has a significant Jewish history and Yiddish words are part of the now dying-out Hantec slang.
They traditionally speak Yiddish, [8] a language that originated in the 9th century, [9] and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Hebrew was primarily used as a literary and sacred language until its 20th-century revival as a common language in Israel.
The Duolingo learning app on Tuesday is adding a new language to its offerings: Yiddish.
Judeo-Azerbaijani (dialect of previously Aramaic-speaking Jews of Miyandoab) [citation needed] Judeo-Crimean Tatar (Krymchak) [24] (almost extinct) Judeo-Turkish [25] (Influenced the Krymchak and some of Karaim languages, or even was the origin of some of them)
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