This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...
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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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Mediterranean Lingua Franca), Romani, rhyming slang, sailors' slang and thieves' cant, which later expanded to contain words from Yiddish and 1960s drug...
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Birobidzhan (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
up about one half of a percent of the population. Yiddish, at that time widely regarded as the lingua franca of the Jewish community, was meant to help...
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Languages of Sweden (section Yiddish)
national minority languages — Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, Sámi languages and Yiddish — and Swedish Sign Language. For most of its history, Sweden was a larger...
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1940s) Classical Yiddish (language of the Yiddish Renaissance, 19th–20th centuries) Classical Newari (language of Malla kingdom and lingua franca in India-Tibet...
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Aleph (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
standard Yiddish. An aleph with the diacritic komets, אָ, represents the vowel [ɔ] in standard Yiddish. Loanwords from Hebrew or Aramaic in Yiddish are spelled...
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Hebrew also functioned as a language of secular high culture, and as a lingua franca between Jews from disparate countries. Jewish scientists and historians...
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of Ezra, and the entire Jewish Babylonian Talmud. Aramaic remained the lingua franca of the Middle East until the time of Islam. Judæo-Aramaic names include...
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sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...
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language Ladino, Espanyolit or Spanyolit. Judaeo-Spanish, once the Jewish lingua franca of the Adriatic Sea, the Balkans, and the Middle East, and renowned...
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Languages of Europe (section Lingua franca)
and Upper High German Upper German, including Bavarian and Swiss German Yiddish is a Jewish language developed in Germany and Eastern Europe. It shares...
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earliest speakers of Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international...
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Judeo-Italian languages (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
parallels the Standard Yiddish distinction between shul/shil for 'synagogue' and shule for 'school'. Another example is Yiddish iente, from the Judeo-Italian...
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million in Germany (2016) and 2.15 million in the Netherlands (2003)); Yiddish, once used by approximately 13 million Jews in pre-World War II Europe...
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the northern region of Italy around Trento) – "[...] [la lingua] italiana [...] è la lingua ufficiale dello Stato." (Statuto Speciale per il Trentino-Alto...
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Fraye Arbeter Shtime (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
L'anarchia nel ghetto: appunti per una storia del moviemento anarchico di lingua Yiddish negli Stati Uniti (Ph.D.) (in Italian). Florence: Universita' degli...
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Languages of Belgium (section Yiddish)
Capital region speak French as either their primary language (50%) or as a lingua franca (45%). Many Flemish people also speak French as a second language...
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Polish language (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
from German or Yiddish and subsequently adopted into the vernacular of Polish which is in everyday use. Historically, Polish was a lingua franca, important...
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The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; Austro-Bavarian, the main dialect outside Vorarlberg; Alemannic, the...
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Dialect (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
geografiche, ecc.), si è imposto come lingua letteraria e ufficiale». Battaglia, Salvatore (1961). Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, UTET, Torino, V. IV...
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as well as mixed languages like Fanakalo (a pidgin language used as a lingua franca in the mining industry), and Tsotsitaal or S'Camtho, an argot that...
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Exercitationes iuris universi, Volume One, Chapter XIII "Observatio de lingua occulta ('An observation of a secret language')". Knebel's account is nearly...
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Retrieved 2023-10-29. La Stampa. "Per la Consulta il piemontese non è una lingua". Archived from the original on March 1, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2010. "Tàula...
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Zwi Migdal (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
Zwi Migdal (Yiddish: צבי מגדל, IPA: [ˈtsvɪ mɪɡˈdal] Polish: Cwi Migdał) was a criminal organisation founded by Jews in Poland in the 19th century, based...
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units are placed before tens as in Early Modern English, Danish, Dutch, Yiddish and Frisian. Students of German are often advised to learn German nouns...
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languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil, with the lingua franca between Singaporeans being English, the de facto main language. Singaporeans...
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Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard. 1998. The semantic status of discourse markers. Lingua 104(3–4), 235–260. Brown, Benjamin (2014). "'But Me No Buts': The Theological...
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Open-mid central unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
Wendel (1978), p. 198. Santiago (2010), pp. 1, 8–10. Volpe, Luigi (2011). La lingua dei masciaioli : dizionario del dialetto di Accettura, cittadina lucana...
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Ghil'ad Zuckermann (category Linguists of Yiddish)
Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his research on the profound influence of Yiddish on modern Hebrew", and listed among Australia's top 30 "living legends...
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