שלום־עליכם!
say it: “SHOH-lem ah-LAY-khem”
Yiddish
in its own words: ייִדיש
- Speakers
- 600 thousand
- Family
- Indo-European – Germanic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Canada, Costa Rica, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Republic of and 10 more
Fun fact
It is a Germanic language written in the Hebrew alphabet, with words borrowed from German, Hebrew and Slavic languages.