שלום־עליכם!
say it: “SHOH-lem ah-LAY-khem”
Yiddish
in its own words: ייִדיש
- Speakers
- 600 thousand (estimate)
- 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
- Script
- Hebrew
Fun fact
Yiddish is a Germanic language written in the Hebrew alphabet, with Hebrew-Aramaic and Slavic components. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate in literature (1978), wrote in Yiddish.