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western yiddish language

The WesternYiddishLanguage is a YiddishLanguage of Germany. SIL code: YIH. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: No estimate available. Region: Southwestern dialect in southern Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace France, Midwestern dialect in central Germany and parts of the former Czechoslovakia, Northwestern dialect is northern Germany and the Netherlands. Also spoken in France, Hungary, Netherlands, Switzerland. Alternate names: YIDDISH, YIDISH, JUDEO-GERMAN. Dialects: SOUTH WESTERN YIDDISH, MIDWESTERN YIDDISH, NORTHWESTERN YIDDISH. Comments: Western Yiddish originated in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Alsace (France), Czechoslovakia, western Hungary. 'The variety of Western Yiddish in Hungary is probably the most readily intelligible to Yiddish speakers in Romania, the Baltic, and the Slavic countries in the East. The Western Yiddish variety in Holland less so, the Western Yiddish in Alsace [France] and Switzerland, least so' (M. Herzog 1997). On the eve of the Holocaust it was spoken by several tens of thousands. Hebrew characters. Nearly extinct.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	germanic language	A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	indo european language	There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	language family	A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	natural language	The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	west germanic language
	yiddish language	Of the 43 WestGermanicLanguages, two are classified as a YiddishLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Belongs to Class	indo european language

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