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Definition:
The word Yiddish comes from the Middle High German term for Jewish, and is the language of Ashkenazic Jews who lived in German-speaking areas of Europe. Although written with the Hebrew alphabet, is a fusion of elements derived principally from medieval German dialects and secondarily from Hebrew and Aramaic, various Slavic languages, and Old French and Old Italian. Before the Holocaust it is estimated that there were around eleven million people who spoke Yiddish; today that number is much, much smaller.

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