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 Bamăriș has lost gender, case 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.
-Bamăriș 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 ''nh/n/m'' (< ănd) while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel.
+Bamăriș 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 ''nt/n/m'' (< ănd) while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel.
 * m břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăn 'the judges'
 * n leynăv 'the child', nă leynăvn 'the children'
 * m beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies'
-* nh Idăch 'the Jew', nă hIdăchn 'the Jews'
+* nt Idăch 'the Jew', nă hIdăchn 'the Jews'
 * ă rowșin 'the rose', nă rowșiniņ 'the roses'
 * ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofisiņ 'the offices'
 The 2nd person singular familiar pronoun is ''thi'' (''thu'' in Standard Ăn Yidiș). The present tense auxiliary תּאָ is pronounced ''tu'' when stressed (when a subject pronoun follows or when used as "yes") and ''t' '' or ''tă'' when unstressed (when a noun follows).