Yiddish, Western

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A language of Germany

ISO 639-3
yih
Alternate Names
Judeo-German, Yiddish, Yidish
Autonym
ייִדיש‎ (Yiddish)
User Population

No known L1 speakers. Last speakers likely died in the mid-20th century (Hutterer 1969).

Language Status

9 (Dormant).

Classification
Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, Yiddish
Dialects

None known. Originated in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Alsace (France), Czechoslovakia (Czechia and Slovakia), and western Hungary. A member of macrolanguage Yiddish [yid].

Language Use

Shifted to Standard German [deu].

Language Development

Bible: 1908.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Yiddish, Western
Writing

Hebrew script [Hebr].

Other Comments

Through the latter half of the 19th century until the mid-20th century, Western Yiddish gradually moved toward extinction (Hutterer 1969, Strack 2017). Jewish.