Western Yiddish

Facts

  • Language: Western Yiddish
  • Alternate names: Yiddish, Yiddish, Western, Central Yiddish, Yidish, Judeo-German
  • Language code: yih
  • Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West, High German, Yiddish (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 5,400
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Hebrew script.

More information:

    Jewish.

    Western Yiddish is spoken in Germany, Israel, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Europe;Near East.