Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer: Difference between revisions

** gimel rafe and native ''gh'' are [g]

** d z ģ /t t͡s t͡ʃ/ ate [ð z ʒ] after a vowel as in the Baltic dialect

* It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. h- is still added to vowel initial plural nouns but not adjectives.

* Balmuriș lost the old grammatical gender system and gained an animacy distinction: non-Hebrew/Aramaic noun plurals are regularly -iņ (< -ug-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''ănd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel.