Eastern Yiddish
[, другое название: Central Yiddish, Judeo-German,]Классификация: Indo-European
·под угрозой
- ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ О СТАТУСЕ ЯЗЫКА
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"There are several communities where children still learn the language, but the general trend is alarming. Yiddish is definitely endangered in Europe, and increasingly endangered worldwide."
- ОПИСАНИЕ РЕГИОНА
Yiddish is currently spoken in a few places in Belarus and the Ukraine, as well as by a small number of individuals in Alsace, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and in Jewish Autonomous Province (capital Birobijan) in eastern Siberia in the Russian Federation. Most speakers now live in North America and Israel. More than 1,000,000 people in North America and approximately 200,000 in Israel have knowledge of Yiddish.