Talk:Yiddish language

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 Definition:  West Germanic language commonly spoken by people of Jewish heritage originating from Central and Eastern Europe and now settled in several parts of the World. [d] [e]
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It's usually spelled "Yiddish" in English... --Larry Sanger 12:08, 1 July 2008 (CDT)

The other possible problem is calling it a dialect of German, which implies that it's just a deviant form of (presumably standard) German. I know the stub qualifies this in typological terms, but it could be clearer that they are at least seen as being distinct, in some ways and culturally are firmly distinguished (e.g. different writing systems). But I don't know enough about Yiddish to do this. John Stephenson 03:20, 2 July 2008 (CDT)
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