Nothing is known with certainty about the vernacular of the earliest Jews in Germany, but several theories have been put forward. Ashkenazi culture later spread into Eastern Europe with large-scale population migrations. ДЄshkenaz bordered on the area inhabited by another distinctive Jewish cultural group, the Sephardi Jews, who ranged into southern France. 1105), Ashkenaz becomes a term for Germany, and ЧђЧ©Ч›ЦјЧ Ч–Ч™ Ashkenazi for the Jews settling in this area. Д«y the high medieval period, their area of settlement, centered on the Rhineland ( Mainz) and the Palatinate (notably Worms and Speyer), came to be known as Ashkenaz, originally a term used of Scythia, and later of various areas of Eastern Europe and Anatolia. However, the number of Yiddish-speakers is increasing in Hasidic communities.Д«y the 10th century, a distinctive Jewish culture had formed in Central Europe. Assimilation following World War II and aliyah, immigration to Israel, further decreased the use of Yiddish among survivors after adapting to Hebrew and Yiddish-speakers from other countries (such as in the Americas). 85% of the approximately six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust were Yiddish speakers, leading to a massive decline in the use of the language. Prior to the Holocaust, there were 11вЂ“13В million speakers of Yiddish among 17В million Jews worldwide. The term 'Yiddish' is also used in the adjectival sense, synonymously with 'Jewish', to designate attributes of Yiddishkeit ('Ashkenazi culture' for example, Yiddish cooking and 'Yiddish music' вЂ“ klezmer). Yiddish is used in a number of Haredi Jewish communities worldwide it is the first language of the home, school, and in many social settings among many Haredi Jews, and is used in most Hasidic yeshivas. Western Yiddish is divided into Southwestern (SwissвЂ“AlsatianвЂ“Southern German), Midwestern (Central German), and Northwestern (NetherlandicвЂ“Northern German) dialects. Eastern Yiddish differs from Western both by its far greater size and by the extensive inclusion of words of Slavic origin. It includes Southeastern (UkrainianвЂ“Romanian), Mideastern (PolishвЂ“GalicianвЂ“Eastern Hungarian) and Northeastern (LithuanianвЂ“Belarusian) dialects. Eastern Yiddish is far more common today. In the late 19th and into the 20th century, the language was more commonly called 'Jewish', especially in non-Jewish contexts, but 'Yiddish' is again the most common designation today. The term 'Yiddish', short for Yidish Taitsh ('Jewish German'), did not become the most frequently used designation in the literature until the 18th century. 'mother tongue'), distinguishing it from ЧњЧ©Ч•ЧџЦѕЧ§Ч•Ч“Ч© ( loshn koydesh, 'holy tongue'), meaning Hebrew and Aramaic. Colloquially, the language is sometimes called ЧћЧђЦ·ЧћЧўЦѕЧњЧ©Ч•Чџ ( mame-loshn, lit. The earliest surviving references date from the 12th century and call the language ЧњЧ©Ч•ЧџЦѕЧђЦ·Ч©Ч›ЦјЧ Ч– ( loshn-ashknaz, 'language of Ashkenaz') or ЧЧІЦ·ЧЧ© ( taytsh), a variant of tiutsch, the contemporary name for Middle High German. A current estimate from Rutgers University gives 250,000 American speakers, 250,000 Israeli speakers, and 100,000 in the rest of the world (for a total of 600,000). In the 1990s, there were around 1.5вЂ“2В million speakers of Yiddish, mostly Hasidic and Haredi Jews. Prior to World War II, its worldwide peak was 11 million, with the number of speakers in the United States and Canada then totaling 150,000. Yiddish writing uses the Hebrew alphabet.

It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a High German-based vernacular fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic most varieties also have substantial influence from Slavic languages, and the vocabulary contains traces of influence from Romance languages. 'Judeo-German') is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. When one of the engines failed, the aeroplane crew jettisoned the luggage.The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish Holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from FГјrth (by NГјrnberg), Bavaria To throw (cargo etc) overboard to lighten a ship, aircraft etc in times of danger. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.

Jettison pronunciation