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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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