Language code: yid

Technical information about ISO 639 language code yid

The table below provides technical details for the Yiddish language, designated by the yid code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

yid

Name

Official

Yiddish

Native

ייִדיש

Text direction

Right-to-Left

Language varieties
Western YiddishNortheastern YiddishMideastern YiddishSoutheastern Yiddish
Related languages
GermanLuxembourgishPennsylvania DutchAlemannic German
Key facts
Written in the Hebrew alphabet with its own orthographic conventionsContains extensive Hebrew-Aramaic and Slavic loanwords layered on a High German baseServed for centuries as the primary vernacular and cultural vehicle of Ashkenazi JewryModern Yiddish literature includes Nobel-Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis SingerClassified by UNESCO as an endangered language
Sample phrase

העלא, ווי גייט עס?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Yiddish language, identified by the code yid, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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