Gut vs Git

 Regional dialect differences can mostly be found in the way vowels are pronounced. 

Click here for the  uproariously funny song I'm a Litvak and She's a Galitz.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yiddish has three main dialects. These constitute Northeastern or Lithuanian Yiddish (traditionally spoken in what is now Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Northern Ukraine, and Russia). Central or Polish Yiddish (spoken chiefly in what is now Poland), and Southeastern or Ukrainian Yiddish (spoken in Eastern Ukraine-and Romania).  

                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dialects of Eastern Yiddish and the North–South Divide.

In this course we will be focusing on Standard Yiddish. As in other linguistic communities, there is a fairly uniform type of language accepted and written wherever Yiddish is used. The Old and Middle Yiddish periods had literary standards of their own, based substantially on Western Yiddish. As now in use, the standard forms of Yiddish were essentially fixed by the classical writers of the 19th century. Essentially an academic project to create a common ground among a variety of dialects and not identical with any of them, Standard Yiddish provides a uniform basis from which to teach the language.

College Yiddish, the first textbook to teach Standard Yiddish, was written by Uriel Weinreich and published by YIVO in 1949.