Which ethnic group's dialect is influenced most by Yiddish?

A. African Americans

B. Jewish Americans

C. American Indians

D. Irish Americans

'Yiddish' was the common everyday language of the Jews of

Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, and

Russia ... exactly the Jewish world of communities that was

brought nearly to total annihilation and extinction in the Holocaust.

As a result, Yiddish is no longer the language of a world of perhaps

ten million people. It is now a language recalled by perhaps a few

hundred thousand souls worldwide. Hanging by a thread, it is the

only bridge to 400 years rich with music, poetry, drama, writings,

theater, and 20th Century film in that language.

In the United States, it may have influenced the accented English

of those who escaped eastern Europe and came to this country

following World War II. But only those whose roots were in eastern

Europe ... not those expelled from Iraq, Iran. Jordan, Lebanon, and

the Arab partition of Palestine, or those who fled Spain, Portugal,

Morocco, Egypt, or Algeria, whose language was never Yiddish.

The question is weak and misleading, and stems from some ignorance.