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Exercises to help you learn the alef-beys—the Yiddish alphabet—from alef to sof.
- Yiddish Vowel Names
Yiddish Vowel Names - Learn the Yiddish Alphabet - Yiddish...
- An Alef-beys Chart
A Yiddish alphabet chart, for quick reference. You can...
- Practice Reading in Yiddish
Learn Learn the Alef-beys—the Yiddish Alphabet. Listen to...
- Yiddish Alphabet Video
Yiddish Alphabet Video. ... Find the alef-beys chart here....
- Look-alike Letters
Look-alike Letters - Learn the Yiddish Alphabet - Yiddish...
- How to Use These Pages
Practice reading the individual letters with the color-coded...
- Final Forms of Yiddish Letters
Some letters in the Yiddish alphabet have two forms—one that...
- Yiddish Letters With Identical Pronunciations
Yiddish Letters With Identical Pronunciations - Learn the...
- Yiddish Vowel Names
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".
A Yiddish alphabet chart, for quick reference. You can download a pdf of the chart at the bottom of the page. You can click on each letter to hear the letter name and pronounciation.
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 is a Germanic language with about three million speakers, mainly Ashkenazic Jews, in the USA, Israel, Russia, Ukraine and many other countries. The name Yiddish is probably an abbreviated version of ייִדיש־טײַטש (yidish-taytsh), which means "Jewish German".
The Yiddish alphabet - Der yiddisher alef-beys. Contents: Chart of the alphabet, phonetic charts, dialect differences in the vowel system, selected references. (Sten Vikner, Dept. of English, University of Aarhus)
Learn how to write and say the Yiddish alphabet with this course. See the table of letters, sounds, examples and audio clips to help you master the Yiddish language.