Yiddish
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A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle Germandialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. It is written inHebrew characters.
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1.) Totally awesome language that is a combination of german and hebrew. Has contributed words such as: bagel, nudnik, mishmash schmuck to our everyday vocabulary.
the perfect language to insult people, paticuarly goyem.
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A [Jewish]language based on [German] once spoken throughout Central and [Eastern Europe]by [Ashkenazic][Jew]s. The name comes from a combination of the German words, Jud (Jew) and Deutsch (German). Sometimes referred to as a dialect of German, and sometimes denigrated as the [Ebonics]
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A Germanic language invented by Jews in Germany. After being blamed for the black death, the Jews were forced out of Germany, spreading through Eastern Europe and taking their middle-high period German language with them and mixing in a few Hebrew words, such as:
Ganif (thief) from Hebrew (Ganav)
Shikker (drunk) from Hebrew (Shikur)
Mishpoyche (family) from Hebrew (Mishpacha)
etc.
The language is written, curiously enough, using the Hebrew alphabet. As it once almost completely resembled German, the language evolved in Germany while the Jews were somewhere else, and therefore the language is still basically middle-high German.
Yiddish was the mother tongue of millions people before the Holocaust -
I find it hilarious that person number two is going on and on about how much Yiddish he knows, and then calls himself a goyem. Goyem is the plural form. I would call him an idiot, but fact remains that he isn't an idiot--Just a goy :P
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ok some people are a little confused, so im gunna try to set the record as strait as i can.
one, the word is goy, goyem is plural, and it does not mean gentile it means non-jew. Also Uncle is wrong, the laungeg was not invented by the khazars (present day khazakstan) it is though a mixture of Middle German and Hebrew. It is also not used by any broad group of people but some people sill do speak it. It is also quite fun for insalting people. Also it is not common with the torah at all! infact it never shows up in the torah seeing as there were no jews in germany yet so how could the laungegs be commbied? yeah so if im wrong o well but i am allmost positive this is all true info.
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Largely European language of the Jewish population. Based on an amalgum of German syntax and grammar, with vocabulary from German and Hebrew, transcribed in the Hebrew alphabet, with loan words from many other Central and Eastern European languages (Czech, Magyar, Russian, Slovak, Polish).
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bastard language of Hebrew and German, used because until recently the Hebrew language was not conducive to conversation. every word is filled with untranslatable connotations, which makes it an excellent swearing language. also holds the most potent insult in the world: [paskudnyak]
spoken often in New York without actual knowledge of meanings. Almost always heard in combination with English.
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Stupid,dumb.idiotic
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