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This table lists the Yiddish alphabet as described in the Uriel Weinreich English–Yiddish–English Dictionary (Weinreich 1968), with a few variants that may be seen in readily available literature. The YIVO romanizations are taken from the same source, where they are presented as "sound equivalents".
First written: 11th century. Writing system: Hebrew alphabet, Latin alphabet. Status: official language in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the southeast of the Russian Federation. Recognised minority language in: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Practice Reading in Yiddish. Follow the text with the help of audio recordings. Exercises to help you learn the alef-beys—the Yiddish alphabet—from alef to sof.
Online Yiddish Keyboard to type a text with the Hebrew characters of the Yiddish alphabet
This page contains a course in the Yiddish Alphabet, pronunciation and sound of each letter as well as a list of other lessons in grammar topics and common expressions in Yiddish.
Practice reading the individual letters with the color-coded multi-media alef-beys chart. On this page, you can click on each letter to hear the letter name and pronunciation. Vowels, consonants, final forms of letters, and letters that only appear in words of Hebrew origin are each marked with a separate color.
Yiddish Alphabet Video. Learn Learn the Alef-beys —the Yiddish Alphabet. In this video, you'll see Yiddish letters in both print and cursive forms, with accompanying audio that provides the names of the letters and the sounds they make.
