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Name:
Yiddish, Western
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Yiddish; Western Yiddish; Central Yiddish; Yidish; Judeo-German
Spoken in:
Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Hungary, Netherlands
Number of speakers:
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)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
yih
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup:
Yiddish; Judeo-German (yidd)
Child Dialects:
Midwestern Yiddish (yih-mid)
Northwestern Yiddish (yih-nor)
Southwestern Yiddish (yih-sou)
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct
Map of Yiddish, Western
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