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20 September, 11:08

Which ethnic group's dialect is influenced most by Yiddish?

A. African Americans

B. Jewish Americans

C. American Indians

D. Irish Americans

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  1. 20 September, 11:32
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    'Yiddish' was the common everyday language of the Jews of

    Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, and

    Russia ... exactly the Jewish world of communities that was

    brought nearly to total annihilation and extinction in the Holocaust.

    As a result, Yiddish is no longer the language of a world of perhaps

    ten million people. It is now a language recalled by perhaps a few

    hundred thousand souls worldwide. Hanging by a thread, it is the

    only bridge to 400 years rich with music, poetry, drama, writings,

    theater, and 20th Century film in that language.

    In the United States, it may have influenced the accented English

    of those who escaped eastern Europe and came to this country

    following World War II. But only those whose roots were in eastern

    Europe ... not those expelled from Iraq, Iran. Jordan, Lebanon, and

    the Arab partition of Palestine, or those who fled Spain, Portugal,

    Morocco, Egypt, or Algeria, whose language was never Yiddish.

    The question is weak and misleading, and stems from some ignorance.
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