Yeshivish
Sociolect of English spoken by Orthodox Jews in Yeshiva / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yeshivish (Yiddish: ישיביש), also known as Yeshiva English, Yeshivisheh Shprach, or Yeshivisheh Reid, is a sociolect of English spoken by Yeshiva students and other Jews with a strong connection to the Orthodox Yeshiva world.[1]
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"Yeshivish" may also refer to non-Hasidic Haredi Jews.[2] Sometimes it has an extra connotation of non-Hasidic Haredi Jews educated in yeshiva and whose education made a noticeable specific cultural impact onto them. In the latter case the term has ambivalent (both positive and negative) connotations comparable to these of the term "academic".[3]
The term appears to be a portmanteau word of yeshiva and English, but it may simply be formed from yeshiva + the adjectival suffix -ish.[4]