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'''Yiddish''' is a [[language]] spoken by [[Ashkenazi]] [[Jew]]s. It is a branch of [[Old High German]], with many loan words from other [[European]] languages and from [[Hebrew]].  Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet.

'''Yiddish''' is a [[language]] spoken by [[Ashkenazi]] [[Jew]]s. It is a branch of [[Old High German]], with many loan words from other [[European]] languages and from [[Hebrew]].  Yiddish is written in the Hebrew alphabet.  When the modern nation of [[Israel]] was first created in 1948 they chose between have Yiddish or [[Hebrew]] as their state language.  Hebrew won out.

[[Category:Languages]]

[[Category:Languages]]