Show yiddish made up of variety of tongues yiddish alsa Is a middle german dialect derived from hebrew and slavic influences fluen ces it Is tho the language spoken by tho the jews la in eastern Eil europe rope tho the most widely spread dialect of the jews those jews who toward the end of the middle ages left germany for the slavic slava lands bohemia poland galicia and lithuania spoke 66 aho middle ale high german of their places of origin and up to the sixteenth century wrote it quite correctly although they employed the hebrew alphabet the absence of active intercourse with germany however led in time to a process of simplification of morphology and syntax thus the imperfect subjunctive and to a large extent the neuter gender were lost till nil tho the prepositions ions came to bo be constructed with the dative etc at the same time the german sounds uder underwent went certain changes and a largo large number of hebrew aramaic and slavic words were incorporated in the language the resultant idiom the yiddish supplanted the slavic spoken by the primitive jewish settlers in the east cast of europe and has been carried to nil all parts of tho the world including Per germany many admitting words and idioms from all the languages with which it has come into contact |