Yiddish phonology is similar to that of German. This is not surprising because much of the vocabulary has a German base. However, a few features are distinct.
Yiddish lacks final obstruent devoicing. As a result, Rad (wheel) and Rat (advice) are pronounced differently. Voiceless plosives as in Kopf (head) are unaspirated.
Yiddish has a smaller vowel inventory than German and has no vowel length distinction. Unlike in Standard German which distinguishes offen (open) and Ofen (oven), no such distinction occurs in Yiddish. Yiddish has only six vowel phonemes.
Yiddish is similar to German and is classified as a Germanic language. However, the phonology of Yiddish is in many respects quite different from that of German. Yiddish has no final obstruent devoicing, has no aspirated plosives and does not distinguish vowel length. In addition, Yiddish has fewer vowel phonemes.
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