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Yiddish was the language of the askinase jews of eastern europe, and is rarely spoken these days. It lives on in many words that come into english, and indeed lots of other languages. Because it's rarely spoken, yiddish scholars are now very much trying to analyze it. In some ways, it's quite like English - with a largely germanic grammar,. mixed ih hebrew and aramaic, and then sprinkled with words from slavic and ancient romance languages. And as o jewish people have migrated over the centuries, it's absorbed, as I say, much like english. So when we talk about yiddish or give our

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