The question to ask is whether someone speaking western Yiddish (which
is probably extinct as a living language), and in a German environment
could distinguish between Judeo-German and their dialect of
Yiddish. Yiddish usually adopts many words from the local language and
tends to reflect the
Yiddish and German.
Although Yiddish and German share a large vocabulary, there are significant
differences in grammar. When deciding whether something is German in
Hebrew characters, or Yiddish it is important to look at the placement of
the verb, use of ayn/ayne (ein, eine) versus a as the
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