{"id":1348,"date":"2013-12-30T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T01:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hebrew\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2014-08-28T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:34:21","slug":"hebrew-vs-yiddish-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/hebrew\/hebrew-vs-yiddish-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebrew vs. Yiddish: What’s the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking at the two paragraphs above, what do you see? Two paragraphs of Hebrew writing, but the second paragraph is not actually Hebrew. It’s actually Yiddish. What’s the difference between the two langauges? Why is Yiddish written with the Hebrew alphabet?<\/p>\n

Yiddish Origins<\/h3>\n

From a linguistic point of view, Yiddish is a mix of languages. It first started as Biblical Hebrew. And after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, speaking Biblical Hebrew was considered too holy for daily use. Around the 11th century, Ashkenazi Jews living in or around the areas now known as Germany and Poland started speaking a language that was a mix of Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, German and Polish called \u05dc\u05e9\u05d5\u05df\u05be\u05d0\u05b7\u05e9\u05db\u05bc\u05e0\u05d6 <\/span> (loshn-ashknez = “language of Ashkenaz”) and \u05d8\u05f2\u05b7\u05d8\u05e9 <\/span> (taytsh, the name for the German spoken in the region of origin). The term \u05d9\u05d9\u05b4\u05d3\u05d9\u05e9 <\/span> (Yiddish) did not become the name of the language until the 18th century. In the late 19th and early 20th century the language was more commonly called “Jewish”, but now “Yiddish” is again in use.<\/p>\n

What are the differences?<\/h3>\n

Due to their Biblical Hebrew roots there are many similarities betwen the two languages. The most obvious is the fact that they use the same written letters. One difference is the niqqud (vowels) used in Hebrew are omitted for the most part in Yiddish. The consonants \u05e2 <\/span> (ayin) and \u05d0 <\/span> (aleph) as well as variations of \u05d9 <\/span> (yud) to represent different vowel sounds.<\/p>\n

Because Yiddish is a mix of various languages, it takes on the grammar rules of the other languages it picked up – making the grammar rules a little bit difficult to pin down. For example, there are two basic ways to form a plural in Hebrew\u2014by adding \u05d9\u05dd <\/span> (im) or \u05d5\u05ea <\/span> (ot) to the end of the word. In Yiddish, however, there are several ways to form a plural depending on the source of the word (is it of German origin? Polish? Aramaic?). For example, the plural of \u201cchaver,\u201d (friend) a Hebrew word, would be \u201cchaverim\u201d in Yiddish. However, the plural of \u201cbubbe\u201d (grandmother) would be \u201cbubbles\u201d in Yiddish.<\/p>\n

Yiddish is a very interesting language. And for all our readers who are Yiddish speakers, \u05d2\u05d5\u05d8 \u05d8\u05d0\u05b8\u05d2 \u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d8. \u05d1\u05d0\u05b7\u05d2\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1\u05d5\u05e0\u05d2 \u05e6\u05d5 \u05d3\u05e2\u05dd \u05d1\u05dc\u05d0\u05b8\u05d2! <\/span><\/p>\n

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