Editing Yiddish (section)

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Yiddish was an official language of the [[Ukrainian People's Republic]] (1917–1921).<ref name="Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation">{{cite book |last=Yekelchyk |first=Serhy |author-link=Serhy Yekelchyk |title=Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yZLtAAAAMAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=OUP USA |isbn=978-0-19-530546-3}}</ref><ref name=HoUJsntui>{{cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |author-link=Paul Robert Magocsi |title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&pg=PA537 |year=2010 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4426-4085-6 |page=537}}</ref> But due to the holocaust, assimilation, and migration of [[History of the Jews in Ukraine|Ukrainian Jews]] abroad today only 3,100 of the remaining Jews speak Yiddish as their first language.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Congress |first=World Jewish |title=World Jewish Congress |url=https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/UA |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=World Jewish Congress |language=en}}</ref> The Southeast dialect of Yiddish has many Ukrainian loanwords due to the long contact between Yiddish speakers and Ukrainian speakers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yiddish |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CY%5CI%5CYiddish.htm |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com}}</ref>