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Revision as of 15:50, 29 July 2020
Optimized for piyyutim (final stress, stressed endings) without being Hebrew gibberish
Phonology
Consonants
p b t d ṭ ḍ č dž k g ʔ s š z ž x h m n ṇ l ḷ r w j
Vowels
a e i o u ö ü
Reduced vowels: a~ə ɨ
Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə
Stress
Usually final, some penultimately-stressed "segolates" CVCVC or CVCCV
Grammar
SVO, tends head-initial but some head-final allowed
Many (stressed) grammatical suffixes
Gender markers:
masc. -0, pl. -en
fem. -as, pl. -es