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Yiddish used by haredi (in Israel at least) is more and more based on Hebrew (definitely phonetics). It's not the same Yiddish my grandparents spoke (Odessa and
by helge9210 6y ago
Yiddish used by haredi (in Israel at least) is more and more based on Hebrew (definitely phonetics). It's not the same Yiddish my grandparents spoke (Odessa and Uman regions of modern Ukraine).
- nanna 6y agoIt's also got a lot of English in it nowadays too, and Dutch. It's a diasporic fusion language so it sucks in the languages of its environment, which for today's speakers means Israel, US/UK, Holland (Antwerp).
- lordgrenville 6y agoBelgium*
- nanna 6y agoWoops, thank you. Looks like it's too late for me to correct, apologies.
- verbify 6y agoYiddish always borrows from the local language.
- compsciphd 6y agomy polish born and american (but "lithuanian" rooted) grandmothers would speak to each other in yiddish, but wouldn't always understand each other.