YIH ISO 639-3
Yiddish, Western
ייִדיש (Yiddish) Autonym
A language of Germany
- ISO 639
- yih
- Alternate Names
- Judeo-German, Yiddish, Yidish
- Autonym
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- 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.
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