Which language's alphabet was widely adopted for other languages and is ancestral to Jewish language?
Jewish languages Jewish languages are the various languages and dialects that developed in Jewish communities in the diaspora. The original Jewish language is Hebrew, which was supplanted as the primary vernacular by Aramaic following the Babylonian exile. Jewish languages feature a syncretism of indigenous Hebrew and Judeo-Aramaic with the languages of the local non-Jewish population.
Yer A yer is one of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets: ъ (ѥръ, "jerŭ") and ь (ѥрь, "jerĭ"). The Glagolitic alphabet used, as respective counterparts, the letters and . They originally represented phonemically the "ultra-short" vowels in Slavic languages, including Old Church Slavonic, and are collectively known as the yers. In all modern Slavic languages, they either evolved into various "full" vowels or disappeared, in some cases causing the palatalization of adjacent consonants. The only Slavic language that still uses "ъ" as a vowel sign (pronounced /ɤ/) is Bulgarian, but in many cases, it corresponds to an earlier "ѫ", originally pronounced /õ/. Many languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet have kept one or more of the yers to serve specific orthographic functions.