Standard Yiddish

@article{Kleine2003StandardY,  title={Standard Yiddish},  author={Ane Kleine},  journal={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},  year={2003},  volume={33},  pages={261 - 265},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:232346563}}
Yiddish is, since Max Weinreich's fundamental work (Weinreich 1973, 1980), referred to as a fusion language in which components of different languages form a comprehensive synthesis. As Yiddish arose in early Ashkenazic communities in German speaking territories from the 10th century onwards, German contributes the most to its component multiplicity. From the start, some Hebrew-Aramaic and Romance elements inherited from the pre-German period were incorporated in the Yiddish language and… 
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