German
Yiddish
Yiddish noun - A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script.
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Bilingual Bonus: The car chase scene in the beginning, with brilliant insults in German and Yiddish being exchanged.
Source: Film / Marathon Man - And then there are Jewish communities in Germany, where most people are Russian and have either Russian or western sounding names, with some Israeli, Biblical, German and Yiddish names thrown into the mix.
Source: Aerith And Bob / Real Life - A few Romani words entered the German language via the Rotwelsch cant mentioned above in the section on Yiddish.
Source: Useful Notes / German Dialects
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Yiddish and German. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/german/yiddish
German & Yiddish. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/german/yiddish>.
Yiddish or German. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/german/yiddish.
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