High German
High German noun - The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic.
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Yiddish and High German are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Yiddish" with "High German", this terms are similar.
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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High German and Yiddish are semantically related. You can use "High German" instead a noun "Yiddish".
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- The fact that Yiddish is almost universally considered a separate language from High German despite the absence of these makes one really think about linguistics.
Source: Useful Notes / German Dialects - Yiddish is a collection of Jewish-specific High German dialects that—despite the lack of an army and a navy—came to be considered a language; the Hebrew loanwords and being written in the Hebrew alphabet probably had something to do with it.
Source: Useful Notes / German Dialects - It is specifically the chief representative of the High German branch of the family (the minor one being Yiddish); this is as opposed to Dutch, which is Low Franconian or Low German (depending on whom one asks), and English, which is Anglo-Frisian with a lot of French admixture.
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Yiddish and High German. (2017). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/high_german/yiddish
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Yiddish or High German. 2017. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/high_german/yiddish.
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