A High German language with substantial Hebrew, Aramaic, and Slavic vocabulary, written in the Hebrew alphabet. The historical vernacular of Ashkenazi Jewry; now spoken mainly by Hasidic communities in the United States, Israel, and Western Europe.
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Yiddish is a dialect of the Yiddish language.
Yiddish is primarily spoken in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine.
Yiddish is part of the Europe region on DialectAtlas.
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The only substantially attested West Baltic language, spoken in historical Prussia around the Sambia peninsula — today's Kaliningrad Oblast and north-eastern Poland. Extinct since the early 18th century, after the 1709–1711 plague; attested in three 16th-century catechisms and the Elbing vocabulary, with a modern reconstruction movement.
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A northern Romani variety historically rooted in Poland and the Baltic region, shaped by long contact with Slavic and Baltic languages.
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A Finnic Uralic language of the Livonian Coast of Courland, Latvia. The last fluent native speaker died in 2013, but an active revival sustains a small community of second-language speakers, supported by the University of Latvia Livonian Institute. Notable for its stød-like broken tone, rare among Uralic languages.
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The Warsaw-based standard of Polish. The official language of Poland and the largest Slavic language by speakers within the European Union.
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A West Slavic minority language of Pomerania in northern Poland, centred on Kashubia. Closely related to Polish but with its own literary standard, orthography, and strong regional identity.
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A Finnic Uralic language and the official language of Estonia. Closely related to Finnish but distinct in vocabulary and a partially restructured case system.