Yiddish song - Mordechai Gebirtig - Berale Perele שיר ביידיש- געבירטיג

[MrPosture123]

Me likes that songs a lots

[dimethyltryptamin]

They are singing about that the women is pregnant and he doesn't want it and she's insecure. Don't speak yiddish but Swiss German, German and Dutch and Russian, so I understand quite a lot.

[Lagolop]

dimethyltryptamin

I was told that Yiddish is closest to Schweizerdeutsch. Most Austrians and Swiss can readily understand Yiddish. Many Germans can as well but German is much more modern. I suspect that Yiddish to modern German is like like Medieval English to modern English

[TheKolischa]

@Lagolop

That's true, the grammatics of yiddish resembles a lot to the swiss-german grammatics - both languages are a kind of medieval german. But anyway: Jiddish has a lot of words in hebrew or russian (about 30%), so anyway it is not so easy to understand for "outsiders". Specially religious or sensual words are in hebrew.

[Lagolop]

@TheKolischa

Ya, there is a mixture of words in Yiddish as there is in virtually any tongue :) Yiddish is essentially Medieval High German and was well developed by the 10th Century. Jews had been in the Rhineland for a long time, several hundred years BC. As they began to migrate eastward to slavic lands, Yiddish picked up some slavic terms but remained the mother tongue of the Ashkenazi Jews. It's interesting to listen to.

[ankaZurek]

what are they singing about?