#Jewish languages

[garlic-and-cloves]

You just have to learn Jewish languages instead. It somehow solves that problem (except when certain Christians get involved)

Perks of being bilingual - honk honk Baguette

Cons of being bilingual - you read constant comments containing rampant jewish hate in two too many languages!

[notaplaceofhonour]

when you see a bunch of Hebrew letters and think you’re having a stroke before realizing it’s Yiddish

[disgruntled-detectives]

This is SUPER interesting. Basically about how American Jews speak English differently due to the influence of Yiddish, Hebrew, and Aramaic and not just Orthodox Jews either. She's a professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies, and Linguistics.

[kafkaesquetwink]

crying blood thinking about the loss of jewish linguistic diversity throughout the levant and the diaspora. dying wasting away ripping out my throat.

[hailruth]

an example of the hungarian language written using the yiddish alphabet. this is an early 20th century embroidery on velvet.

it reads "boldogult / jó anyák emlékére / zahar pál és neje" (trans. "in memory of our deceased, good mother / zahar pál and his wife").

[kaminos-de-leche-i-miel]

finally applied to study ladino! :) if, like me, you are a big linguistic nerd, i really recommend checking out the oxford school of rare jewish languages, applications are open until september 16!

[bubblefemmejewitchery]

legendary yiddish curses by jewitches

[tributary]

this article has everything: debunking the khazar theory of ashkenazi origins, linguistic typology, syntactical analysis, and dunking on the daily mail

[rotzaprachim]

ladino news paper from the US in 1926. highly recc taking a look if you know hebrew letters and any spanish

[garlic-and-cloves]

Considering switching from learning Yiddish to more actively learning Hebrew. I do love Yiddish but just do not have the time to be studying 3 foreign languages, and the truth is I mostly started Yiddish by accident and it kind of just continued. There's very few online resources for it and no one I can practice with (and that's unlikely to change). And it just makes more sense for me to be learning Hebrew, it's the language I pray in daily, study texts in, know many people who speak it, and it'll be helpful if I ever move to Israel.

[languagehealing]

50 Beginner Hebrew Words

(This is a re-make of my old Hebrew word lists, all compiled into one post and edited/modified).

Pink – ורוד

Red - אדום

Orange - כתום

Yellow – צהוב

Green - ירוק

Blue – כחול

Purple - סגול

Brown – חום

Black – שחור

Gray - אפור

White - לבן

1 – אחת

2 – שתים

3 – שלוש

4 – ארבע

5 – חמש

6 – שש

7 – שבע

8 – שמונה

9 – תשע

10 – עשר

Head – ראש

Hair – שיער

Eye – עין

Ear - אוזן

Nose – אף

Mouth – פה

Arm - זרוע

Leg - רגל

Hand - יד

Foot - כף רגל

Mother – אמא

Father – אבא

Child - ילד

Daughter – בת

Son – בן

Sister – אחות

Brother – אח

Grandma – סבתא

Grandpa – סבא

Aunt – דודה

Uncle – דוד

Clothes – בגדיים

Shirt – חולצה

Pants – מכנסיים

Shoe – נעל

Water - מים

Bread - לחם

Cat - ��תול

Dog - כלב

[willowchild]

I am once again thinking of this

I am sooo normal about this

[hikari-m]

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

[bubblefemmejewitchery]

legendary ladino sayings by jewitches

[a-s-fischer]

I just can't get over how much of a confession it is when somebody says, "I'm not antisemitic, Jews aren't even really a semitic people anyway".

What you're saying with that line of logic is that yep, you hate Jews. You just don't want to be called the word for people who hate Jews.