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Minerva1
14 Apr 2018

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What is the difference between Hebrew and Yiddish? Why are both languages spoken in Israel?

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chuvack
14 Apr 2018

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Hebrew is a semitic language spoken by Jews originally. In yiddish often called the language of Torah, the holy language. That's why only men learnt it. Yiddish was created from german language so Jews don't speak hebrew as their mother tongues in everyday life.

Althought lot of yiddish speakers perished during holocaust and those who survived came to usa (lots of them still speaking yiddish, some speak only english), Israel (lots of them speaking hebrew, yiddish is used rarely, taught in orthodox communities as they think of hebrew as the holy language) or stayed in Europe (they are very few, most of yiddish speakers are in Poland, Sweden and Ukraine, most of Jews living here use only the country's official language in their everyday life)

So, they both are jewish languages, that's why they can be heard in Israel, althought hebrew is the main all people speak there. Yiddish is spoken there by the older generation or orthodoxs.

Hebrew and yiddish are both written in the hebrew script but yiddish has more letters as it is a germanic language where the vowels are written and in semitic languages, they are not.

Minerva1
14 Apr 2018

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@chuvack Interesting! Thank you for the response!
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alonsh457
16 Apr 2018

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ydish is the language that was invented spoken by uropean jews mainly german and hebrew is a language from the hebrew bible that was modernised and revived by a man calld eliezer ben yehuda

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