"Immediately prior to the Nazi German genocide of the Second World War, the number of Yiddish speakers was estimated at 11-13 million, making it the third largest Germanic language at the time (after German and English). Of the 6 million Jews murdered in Germany's genocide, approximately 5 million were Yiddish speakers (3)."
Yiddish: A Linguistic Introduction By: Neil G. Jacobs; Cambridge University Press. 2005.
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