Many words we think of as Yiddish are originally Hebrew. And Yiddish is written with the Hebrew alphabet (though also often rendered in the Latin alphabet). From our morning news briefing to a ...

Although based primarily on German, Yiddish “was written in the Hebrew alphabet and derived as much as 20% of its vocabulary from Hebrew and Aramaic.” And here’s the dichotomy. Yiddish was ...

Although the letters of the Yiddish alphabet are identical to those of the Hebrew alphabet, the written languages of the two are different. Yiddish is written phonetically – Hebrew is not.

Some linguists believe that Ashkenazi Hebrew once had a nasalized ... whose sound roughly represents the Latin alphabet E. And as such Jews writing Yiddish turned the ayin (ע) into an alternate ...

Yiddish is written in the Hebrew script, not the Latin alphabet. As such, we needed a dictionary to provide transliterated Yiddish in order to compare the two words. Many online Yiddish-English ...