Alternate Names: Judeo-German, Yiddish
Dialects: Mideastern Yiddish, Northeastern Yiddish, Southeastern Yiddish. Many loans from Hebrew , and local languages. Eastern and Western , Yiddish have difficult inherent intelligibility due to differing histories and influences from other languages. Some Western Yiddish , in Israel (1977 M. Herzog). A member of macrolanguage Yiddish ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 215,000 in Israel (1986). Population total all countries: 1,505,030.
Language Use: Used as L2 by Western Yiddish [yih].
Language Development: Magazines. Radio programs. Bible: 1821–1936.
Typology: SVO.
Writing System: Hebrew
Nation of Origin: Israel
Other Comments: Jewish.