Jewish English languages are varieties of English that include significant amounts of vocabulary and syntax taken from Yiddish, and both classical and modern Hebrew. They are typified by Yeshivish and Yinglish, as well as more flexible mixtures of English and other Jewish languages, which may contain elements from languages other than those already mentioned. A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ... For other uses, see Syntax (disambiguation). ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... The term Yinglish describes the distinctive way certain Orthodox Jews in English-speaking countries, principally America, but also the United Kingdom, speak English among themselves. ... The Jewish languages are a set of languages that developed in various Jewish communities, in Europe, southern and south-western Asia, and northern Africa. ...
The classification Jewish English eliminates need for concern with correctly recognizing the specific origin of the non-English components of any such variant. This offsets, for example, misperceptions that can result from failure to note the Hebrew origin of a word that may have became widely known in Anglophone contexts via Yiddish, and is therefore simply regarded as Yiddish. (This problem is illustrated in the list of English words of Yiddish origin.) This is a list of English language words of Yiddish language origin, many of which have entered the language by way of American English or Cockney. ...
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