Yiddish, Western
A language of Germany
| Population | 5,000 in Germany. 11,000,000 first and L2 speakers wordwide. Population total all countries: 5,400. Ethnic population: 49,210 in Germany (2000). |
| Region | Southwestern is south; Midwestern in central Germany; Northwestern is north. Also in Belgium, France, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Switzerland. |
| Alternate names | Judeo-German, Yiddish, Yidish |
| Dialects | Southwestern Yiddish, Midwestern Yiddish, Northwestern Yiddish. Originated in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Alsace (France), Czechoslovakia, western Hungary. “The variety of Western Yiddish in Hungary is probably the most readily intelligible to Yiddish speakers in Romania, the Baltic, and the Slavic countries in the East. The Western Yiddish variety in Holland less so; the Western Yiddish in Alsace (France) and Switzerland, least so” (M. Herzog 1997). |
| Classification | Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, Yiddish A member of macrolanguage Yiddish [yid] (Israel). |
| Writing system | Hebrew script. |
| Comments | Jewish. |
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