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What Is Yiddish?
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What Is Yiddish?

Jewish languages are examples par excellence of the Miami English phenomenon.
John McWhorter
Sep 11, 2023
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Yiddish underground periodicals published in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two.

Yiddish, Ladino, Bukharian, and other languages of the Jewish diaspora, are not unlike what is happening with Miami English — only much further along. John explains.

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