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Name:
Yiddish, Eastern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Yiddish; Eastern Yiddish; Central Yiddish; Judeo-German
Spoken in:
Uruguay, Belgium, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, USA, South Africa, Australia, Estonia, Israel, Poland, Costa Rica, Canada, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Panama, Puerto Rico, Russia, Argentina, Latvia, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech Republic
Number of speakers:
215,000 in Israel (1986). Population total all countries: 1,762,320
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
3000000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
3142560
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ydd
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Yiddish; Judeo-German (yidd)
Child Dialects:
Mideastern Yiddish (ydd-mid)
Northeastern Yiddish (ydd-nor)
Southeastern Yiddish (ydd-sou)
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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