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Western Yiddish language

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classification of Yiddish

  • Yiddish alphabet
    In Yiddish language

    Western Yiddish, the only form of Yiddish that was used during the earliest history of the language, remained the dominant branch during the Old Yiddish period (ending about 1350). It comprises Southwestern (Swiss–Alsatian–Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (Dutch–Northern German) Yiddish. Eastern Yiddish, roughly…

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  • Germanic languages in Europe
    In West Germanic languages: History

    …earliest literary tradition had a Western Yiddish dialectal base; writing in this literary dialect continued into the Modern Yiddish period long after the major population centres had shifted to the east. The establishment of the modern literary language on an Eastern Yiddish base occurred only in the early 19th century.…

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