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Show Yiddish Not Hebrew Ylddl-h Is spol'cn by a largo tiilin her of .lews of ;orin:in or Polish unci' un-ci' try, and n. not lb,- natural latr;uiu;e of the .lew I Jl people, who speak mod crn Hebrew. The .Ires who left tier-ninny tier-ninny In the .Middle ages for Uie Slavic lanili of Ruin-nil:!, Poland, (bilicia anil Lithuania spoke. IicmiIcs Hebrew the middle h'c.h Cerinan. In cour;e of lime Hebrew anil Arnitinle and Slavic words becnine elision w niu! a certain modi fi.'. a of (tie sound of the Cornian words also took place, and by the Sixteenth century world defined dialect, or hingiuigo. known as Yld dl'ii hud become common. It was not adopted ns a literary language uulil the Nineteenth century. |