Is Yiddish a pidgin?

Answer:
No. Pidgin is an artificial, nonliterary work-place jargon using a limited and modified vocabulary from one language according to the phonological and grammatical structure of another ( the word pidgin is trying to be the English word "business"). Yiddish is a mother tongue, a literary dialect of German ( or possibly a distinct germanic language in its own right ), which uses many words and phrases from Hebrew, Russian and Polish.
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