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The Yiddish: Hybrid Between Hebrew And Medieval Germany

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In the 900 and 1100 C.E Yiddish was believed to have become a speaking language, The Yiddish language is a hybrid between Hebrew and medieval German, Yiddish takes about three-quarters of its vocabulary from German but took a lot of words political from Hebrew and many other languages from lots of different regions where Ashkenazic Jews have lived. Yiddish was a rather spoken language than written language. The Yiddish language did well for many centuries and grew farther and farther away from Germany as time went on. The Yiddish language made its own unique rules and pronunciations. The Yiddish were also becoming more educated as time went on with there vocabulary on terms with emotions of the human body the actual human detailed to body.
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