WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Yiddish is the language of the Ashkenazim, central and eastern European Jews and their descendants. Written in the Hebrew alphabet, it became one of the world’s most widespread languages, appearing in most countries with a Jewish population by the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Yiddish was the language spoken by the largest number of Jews in the 1850s, but today the three most commonly spoken languages among Jews are English, modern Hebrew, and Russian-in that order.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary language of Ashkenazic Jews, Yiddish is currently spoken mostly in Israel, Russia, the United States, and several European countries. There are over 150, 000 speakers of Yiddish in the United States and Canada. Yiddish is more than 1, 000 years old (Rourke, 2000), and it started primarily as an oral language.