Yiddish
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Yiddish is a language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. 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.