High German languages

West Germanic language native to Central Europe

thumb|The opening page of the 1828 Yiddish-written Jewish holiday of Purim play Esther, oder die belohnte Tugend from [[Fürth (by Nürnberg), Bavaria]]

West Germanic language family

historical form of High German

written and formal spoken German

extinct Germanic language (1500–1650, or 1350–1650)

language

Lachoudisch was a dialect of German, containing many Hebrew and Yiddish words, native to the Bavarian town of Schopfloch. It was created in the sixteenth century. Few speakers remained after the Holocaust, and it went extinct sometime after.

varieties of the Yiddish language

German dialect of South Australia