what is the jewish language?

Question

is yiddish or hebrew the jewish language?

Answer 1

Hebrew is the religious language.
Yiddish is the German-Jewish language.

Answer 2

Hebrew has always been the national language of the Jewish people.

Jews have also developed their own languages in many of the lands they have lived in. Yiddish and Ladino are the most well known examples of these.

Answer 3

Traditionally, and by definition, it's Hebrew. It is the language in which most of the Hebrew Bible (Old testament) is written, and supposedly was the language of the Hebrews from the time they left Egypt until the fall of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

But after the Jewish kingdoms were conquered, most Jews remaining in the Holy Land took Aramaic as their mother language, and after Alexander's conquest, they largely switched to Greek for all matters not involving religion.

Yiddish is another typically Jewish language, but it is mostly a German dialect mixedd with some Hebrew and Aramaic words that evolved in the late middle ages and early modern times in areas now part of Eastern German, Poland and Lituania.

Answer 4

Hebrew

Answer 5

There are several languages that are well associated with the Jewish nation and religion, but there is no one exclusive language that can claim to be the only tongue of the Jews:
Hebrew and Aramaic were spoken among Jews in ancient times and they are considered the ultimate Jewish languages, although other nations spoke it as well.
There are loads of other minor Jewish tongues that were influenced by other languages, according to the area (and its native tongue) on which the Jewish community who spoke it lived. Yiddish is one of the most famous of them, and this is the language of the Ashkenazi Jews.
There are also "Ladino" (who was spoken around the Mediterranean basin), "Zarphatic" (of the French Jews), "Yevanic" (of the Greek Jews), "Knaanic" (of the Czech Jews) and many other more...

Read some more over here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_languages#Afro-Asiatic_languages

Answer 6

Yiddish

Answer 7

Hebrew. Yiddish is a slang developed in the ghettos of Germany during WWII so other Jews would recognize and have their own words for things that the German Nazis wouldn't understand. Jews still use it today.

Jesus spoke Aramaic to be exact. That was the language spoken in his area at the time he lived.

Answer 8

I have jewish blood, am known as a "yid" pet name, of course, but the language is hebrew.

Answer 9

yes, the jewish language is hebrew.

Answer 10

Yiddish is the modern Jew language and Hebrew is the ancient Jew language.