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    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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    Rafe (section Yiddish)
    (dot above, denoting lenition) in the old-style Irish alphabet. In Yiddish orthography, the rafe distinguishes פ‎ /p/ from פֿ‎ /f/ and in words of Semitic...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Division of Philology, which included Max Weinreich, standardized Yiddish orthography under YIVO. Simultaneously, the Division of History, originally headed...
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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • / / 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Yiddish) a rafé placed above the letter unambiguously denotes the fricative variant: בֿ‎ = /v/, כֿ‎ = /χ/ and פֿ‎ = /f/. In Modern Hebrew orthography...
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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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