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== Phonology == | == Phonology == | ||
* ''ăm ăn ăl'' can become syllabic ''m n l'' like in our Yiddish. Unstressed i | * ''ăm ăn ăl'' can become syllabic ''m n l'' like in our Yiddish. Unstressed i reduces to ă, and older fortis resonants don't become syllabic, so the new syllabic resonants are phonemic. | ||
* It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts; the resulting Hebrew reading is coincidentally similar to our Satmar/Poylish Hebrew, just with stop voicing weirdness like the rest of Tsarfati Hebrew. | * It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts; the resulting Hebrew reading is coincidentally similar to our Satmar/Poylish Hebrew, just with stop voicing weirdness like the rest of Tsarfati Hebrew. | ||
** ă > o > u > ow; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa | ** ă > o > u > ow; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa |
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