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n. The Hebrew language.
n. Yiddish words of Hebrew or Aramaic origin.
Example Sentences
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"I spoke to my siblings in English, but my parents always insisted I speak Lashon HaKodesh with them."
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"Historically, the loshn koydesh component of Yiddish was substantial and pervasive, affecting various areas of the grammar, and has been fully integrated into the grammar of Yiddish." (source)
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"But then again all those loshn koydesh words not spelled phonetically can be a real headache. Who knows the pronunciation?!" (source)
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"The school curriculum includes times for group loshn koydesh prayer and girls chant these prayers together out loud, initially led by a teacher, as well as recite prayers aloud individually when religiously required." (Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives edited by Vally Lytra, Dinah Volk, and Eve Gregory)
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"When my grandfather wrote home to his father, it was always in Loshn Kohdesh." (Glinert)
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Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
TH לשון הקודש lashon ha-kodesh, lit. 'the holy tongue' > Y לשון־קודש loshn-koydesh
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- Older: Jews who are middle-aged and older
- Ashkenazim: Jews with Ashkenazi heritage
- Other
- Yiddishists
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- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
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- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
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Alternative Spellings
leshon ha-kodesh, loshen kodesh, loyshn kohdesh, loshn koydesh, loshen koydesh, loshen koidesh, loshn koidesh, loshn-koydesh, loshen-koydesh, loshn-koidesh, loshen-koidesh
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