Eastern Yiddish language

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In Yiddish language
Eastern Yiddish, roughly equal in importance to its western counterpart during the Middle Yiddish period (c. 1350–1600), vastly overtook it in the Early New Yiddish period (from roughly 1600) and includes all present-day spoken Yiddish. The major Eastern Yiddish dialects—Southeastern (spoken in Ukraine and Romania),…
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In West Germanic languages: History
…modern literary language on an Eastern Yiddish base occurred only in the early 19th century. At the same time a new style in the language of Yiddish Bible translation emerged, free from the constraints of the original Hebrew syntax and of the stricture against the use of Yiddish words of…
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