Also, Yiddish is basically German but written with the Hebrew character set. The explosion of Yiddish translations is probably and simply because the Translate

Also, Yiddish is basically German but written with the Hebrew character set. The explosion of Yiddish translations is probably and simply because the Translate team at Google just got round to implementing Yiddish translation, which was relatively simple for them as they only needed to combine German translation (already mature code) with the Hebrew character parsing/writing code.