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What is the difference between Aramaic,Yiddish and Hebrew?
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- yotgLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
Three different languages.
These are the main languages that are identified with the Jewish people.
Hebrew is the most ancient one of them.
It is a Canaanite language (the only existent Canaanite language, in fact), from the western branch of the Semitic languages.
The Hebrew language has no regional dialects, but periodic dialects: The biblical Hebrew (1,200 BCE- 300 BCE), The Mishnaic Hebrew, the Medieval Hebrew and the Modern Hebrew.
Hebrew is the only recorded language that was considered "dead" (dead language: a language that has no native speakers) and was artificially revived: the new dialect of Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, is now spoken as a mother tongue of more than 3,000,000 Israelis. Total speakers: about 7,000,000.
It is considered the sacred language of the Jews.
Aramaic is actually a group of Semitic languages, from the western group of the Semitic languages.
Aramaic is divided to many regional and periodical dialects, but only two of them are still spoken: New Eastern Aramaic (spoken in small communities in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Israel) and New Western Aramaic (spoken in small communities in Syria). The Jewish community of New Aramaic speakers ("nash didan"- our people) is very little- less than 5,000.
It is spoken by 445,000 people approximately and considered "endangered language".
Yiddish (means "Jewish") is the language of the Ashkenazi Jews and it is a Germanic language, a group of northern Indo-European languages.
Its vocabulary is actually a mix of German, Slavic and Hebrew words, and its structure is German.
Yiddish is the only Germanic language that is not written in the Latin alphabet- it is written in the Hebrew alphabet (although the pronunciation of some of the letters is different).
It is spoken by 3,000,000 people approximately, and considered "endangered language".
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- 1 decade ago
Aramaic is a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history.
Yiddish is a nonterritorial Germanic language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet.
Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jewish communities around the world.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/ - 1 decade ago
I don't know what Yiddish is but Hebrew is definitely NOT Aramaic....I speak the newer version of Aramaic. They change some stuff about it to make it easier for people to learn it and understand the language. But there is a difference....Assyrians (me) speak Aramaic, Yiddish people speak Yiddish, and Jewish people speak Hebrew. That's the difference, and they have different beliefs.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The Hebrews/Israelites spoke Hebrew (ancient Hebrew of the early people from Adam and Eve). Jesus and other Jews during that time spoke Aramaic, whcih came into being after the fall of the tower of Babylon. Remember that Jesus was a Jew because His mother was a Jew but He was also considered an Arab and an Narzarean. Yiddish is a mix of German and modern Hebrew during WWI and WWII. The Jews that tried to hide in Germany and fit in with people around them, mixed their language with the Germans to make their own language to set themselves apart from the Germans but to also know the German language.
- 1 decade ago
Yiddish is influenced by the europeans the jewish people lived around. Aramic is very old. What jews originally spoke
- 1 decade ago
Aramaic is old slang Hebrew Jesus spoke in that time, Hebrew is the origional language and Yiddish is Hebrew and German