Editing Guttural R (section)

===Yiddish===

[[Yiddish]], the traditional language of [[Ashkenazi Jews]] in central and eastern Europe, is derived from [[Middle High German]]. As such it presumably used the alveolar R at first, but the uvular R then became predominant in many [[Yiddish dialects]]. It is unclear whether this happened through independent developments or under influence from modern German (a language widely spoken in large parts of eastern Europe until 1945).