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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. When the modern nation of [[Israel]] was first created in 1948 they chose between Yiddish and Hebrew as their state language. Hebrew won out.
'''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 Yiddish and Hebrew as their state language. Hebrew won out.
[[Category:Languages]]
American English has a lot of loanwords from Yiddish, for example ''bagel'', ''kvetch'', ''[[borscht]]'', ''chutzpah'', to name just a few. Yiddish was also spoken by many Jewish American comedians, like the [[Three Stooges]] and the [[Marx Brothers]]. This is used by these comedians as humorous "gibberish" when assuming another identity.
[[Category:Germanic languages]]