My ancestors spoke yiddish and lived in what is modern day Ukraine. What I wonder is if they also spoke the regional language or if they were isolated in only speaking yiddish?
2006-12-13 09:00:24 · 5 answers · asked by ihaveissues 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
They may have spoken Ukraine, which is a dialect of Russian (Russians and Ukraines understand one another), and they may not have.
Some Jews lived in isolated rural villages, where everyone was Jewish and spoke Yiddish.
Others lived in cities and spoke several languages.
Some spoke only Ukraine, and only the Rabbis spoke anything else, as is the case today.
It depended on the location and the period in time.
2006-12-13 09:16:29 · answer #1 · answered by Richard E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jews who spoke Yiddish almost always also spoke the language of the country they were in. Most Jews in Poland spoke Polish; Jews in Russia also spoke Russian, etc. Yiddish has a lot of Polish and Russian words in it too.
2006-12-13 09:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by carol j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
luky you aked that im jewih and yes there native language was rusian they learned yiddish the way i learned hebrew, school, synogogues. so yes it was there native language
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