symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew...
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led to an increase in formal Yiddish-language education, more uniform orthography, and to the 1925 founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, YIVO....
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from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English. There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses...
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is a shva naḥ on the letter ד, and סִדְּרָה is written סידרה. In Yiddish orthography the ḥiriq is placed under the yud ⟨יִ⟩. The following table contains...
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Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
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graphs are in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block: Note: In Yiddish orthography only, the glyph, yud-ḥiriq (יִ), pronounced /i/, can be optionally...
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symbol for the Yiddish language, a letter that "Oyfn Pripetshik" highlights as a distinctive letter in Yiddish orthography in a play on a Yiddish alphabet song...
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of the letter ayin ע, also used for this purpose much later in Yiddish orthography. In pre-exilic Hebrew, there was a significant development of the...
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Aleph (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
but that digraph is not permitted at the beginning of a word in Yiddish orthography, so it is preceded by a silent aleph. Some publications use a silent...
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Patach (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
and segol which contain a shva next to it. In Yiddish orthography, a pataḥ (called pasekh in Yiddish) has two uses. The combination of pasekh with the...
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Yiddish grammar is the system of principles which govern the structure of the Yiddish language. This article describes the standard form laid out by YIVO...
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norms for the Yiddish language, it is written exclusively in Hebrew script with different Yiddish orthography including YIVO, Hasidic Yiddish and Daytshmerish...
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Yiddishist movement (redirect from Yiddishism)
Division of Philology, which included Max Weinreich, standardized Yiddish orthography under YIVO. Simultaneously, the Division of History, originally headed...
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YIVO (redirect from Yiddish Scientific Institute)
Eastern Europe, Germany, and Russia as well as orthography, lexicography, and other studies related to Yiddish. Established in 1925 in Wilno in the Second...
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Languages of Sweden (section Yiddish)
Yiddish is a Germanic language with significant Hebrew and Slavic influence, written with a variant of the Hebrew alphabet (see Yiddish orthography)...
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Yiddish words used in the English language include both words that have been assimilated into English – used by both Yiddish and English speakers – and...
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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is...
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versus Yiddish vov yud (/ɔj/). For example, the Yiddish "to be" is זיין, which orthographically matches Dutch zijn more than German sein, or Yiddish הויז...
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that is, c, g, h, j, and s circumflex, and u breve. Standard Esperanto orthography uses the Latin script. The letters have approximately the sound values...
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Daytshmerish (category German orthography)
Daytshmerish (דײַטשמעריש) is a Yiddish term for Germanized variant or orthography of Yiddish. Daytshmerish Yiddish is spelled and enunciated as אידיש...
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Elye Falkovitsh (category Yiddish–Russian translators)
central in molding the standards of Soviet Yiddish in regards to lexicon, grammar, style, and orthography . After advocating the study of the Pentateuch...
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Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet. The Estonian orthography is generally guided...
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⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic...
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transcription delimiters. Russian orthography (Russian: правописа́ние, romanized: pravopisaniye, IPA: [prəvəpʲɪˈsanʲɪjə]) is an orthographic tradition formally considered...
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(See List of Cyrillic digraphs.) Tsakonian has τσχ /tʃ/. The orthography used for the Yiddish language by YIVO uses the Hebrew script trigraph דזש (dalet...
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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, allowing...
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Czech orthography is a system of rules for proper formal writing (orthography) in Czech. The earliest form of separate Latin script specifically designed...
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Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet. The spelling system is issued by government decree and is compulsory for all government documentation and educational...
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Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses the Latin alphabet to write the Italian language. This article focuses on the writing...
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