Official transliteration guide for Yiddish according to the YIVO, the Official Yiddish Language Academy.
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EXCEPTION: When the word אויף is used as a preposition, it is pronounced and therefore transliterated as af (not oyf), following modern convention.
*Yiddish consonants with checkmarks occur only in words of Hebrew or Aramaic origin.
This chart is based on the Yiddish Alef-Beys (Alphabet) of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and on Sten Vikner’s Yidisher Alef-Beys, which also includes handwritten letter forms, phonetic charts, and a chart of dialect differences.
Yiddish Spelling using YIVO transliteration
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Tools to transliterate, translate and write in Yiddish
- https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish/dictionary.cgi
- https://www.lexilogos.com/english/yiddish_dictionary.htm
- https://www.yivo.org/Yiddish-Alphabet
- http://www.etranslator.ro/yiddish-english-online-translator.php
- https://imtranslator.net/translation/Online-Yiddish-translations/
- https://yivo.org/cimages/seven_genders_-_uriel_weinreich.pdf
- https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Language/Yiddish
- https://ruthrubin.yivo.org/exhibits/show/ruth-rubin-sound-archive/home