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Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew script, which is used as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet. Letters that are silent or represent glottal stops in the Hebrew language are used as vowels in Yiddish.
You can search for information by Yiddish word (in YIVO transcription or in Yiddish letters), English translation, Hebrew spelling of a loshn-koydesh word, and for some grammatical and usage markers. Yiddish words in Yiddish letters
Common Orthography Outside the YIVO Standard. Transliteration guide for Yidict, a free Yiddish-English dictionary on the web.
That is what is achieved by this stupendous, new and unfolding Yiddish Cultural Dictionary. Here, in every word and comment, is the real Yiddish with all its Jewish juices and its rich varieties — surviving all attempts to ‘purify’ it from within and liquidate it from without, and here once again in youthful bloom.
This dictionary uses a somewhat Germanized orthography. It is apparently directed to Yiddish speakers, not to English speakers. Thanks to David Starner for scanning in this dictionary.
Yiddish dictionary. Wiktionary pronunciation Wikipedia Google search Google books. • A Yiddish cultural dictionary for the 21st century, by Dovid Katz. • University of Kentucky: Yiddish-English dictionary (Latin characters) • Verterbukh.org: Yiddish-English & French dictionary.
Complete English-Jewish dictionary : with the pronunciation of every word in Hebrew characters / New York : J. Saphirstein, 1895 (2nd rev. and enl. ed.) Harkavy, Alexander. A dictionary of the Yiddish language, with a treatise on Yiddish reading, orthography, and dialectal variations / New York: J. L. Werbelowsky, 1898 (2nd ed. in 1901)
