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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.
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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.
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".
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.
30 lip 2020 · This chart is based on the Yiddish Alef-Beys (Alphabet) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and on Sten Vikner’s Yidisher Alef-Beys, which also includes handwritten letter forms, phonetic charts, and a chart of dialect differences.
This chart is based on the Yiddish Alef-Beys (Alphabet) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and on Sten Vikner's Yidisher Alef-Beys, which also includes handwritten letter forms, phonetic charts, and a chart of dialect differences.
Yiddish Letter Y IVO Transliteration Chart Sound ch as in Bach ts as in patsy sh ch as in cheese s as in measure j as in judge Yiddish Letter at End of Word Yiddish Letter Name tes kof khof (langer khof) lamed mem (shlos mem) nun (langer nun) samekh pey fey (langer fey) tsadek kuf resh shin sin tof sof tes-shin zayen-shin daled- zayen-shm at End