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"in" combining form with def article is אַנאַ or אַנאַן, otherwise it's מעוון (even when the noun is semantically definite)
"in" combining form with def article is אַנאַ or אַנאַן, otherwise it's מעוון (even when the noun is semantically definite)


''*am'' also changes for indefinites to קילך (~ cylch)
''*am'' also changes for indefinites to קעלך (~ cylch)


default native pl אָוו
default native pl אָוו

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Izeweg (אַן יעס אידעוועק [an jes i'zeweg] 'the Jewish language') is the traditional Northern European Jewish ("Tsarfati") vernacular in Irta. It's (essentially) a Brythonic Celtic language and a descendant of Old Galoyseg. It's a possible answer to the question "What would a Jewish Celtic language look like?"

In-universe English name?

Essentially a Judeo-Breton~Welsh

PIE ē becomes tzere, PIE ei becones /uj/

Writing

Vowels

/a aj e ej i o oj u uj y aw ew iw ow/ אַ אַי ע עי אי אָ אָי אוֹ אוֹי אוּ אַוו עוו איוו אָוו

Consonants

Default native spelling

Abstract c g ch gh ng ngh כּ ק כ ג נק נכּ

Abstract t d th dh n nh תּ ט ת ד נ נתּ

Abstract p b ph bh m mh פּ בּ פ ב מ מפּ

j r l ll w s š h 2 י ר ל לּ וו ס ש ה א

Mutations

The new consonant is prefixed in front of the mutated word with a hyphen: אַנאַ נתּ-תּוֹרה ana nhToyro 'in the Torah'.

Hebrew reading

Izeweg has no vowel reduction in Hebrew and Aramaic loans, unlike Yiddish. Stress is just shifted to penultimate (as in native Izeweg).

/2 b v g γ d δ h w z H T j k x l m n s 3 p f S q r š t θ/ = [(none)~2 p= v g x t= δ~z h w δ~z h t= j kh x l m n s (none)~2 ph f ts= k= r š th s]

TibH /i e E a O o u ŠN HP HS HQ/ = [i ej~aj e a o u y a a e o]

L dagesh > Welsh ll. Some pronounce sin as ll.

Mutations

Same as in Welsh but

  • g post vocalically mutates to c'h
  • no m > v
  • ll but no rh
  • t spirant mutates to s

Grammar

Indef article אין, def article אַן (> אים and אַם before /p b f m v/)

"in" combining form with def article is אַנאַ or אַנאַן, otherwise it's מעוון (even when the noun is semantically definite)

*am also changes for indefinites to קעלך (~ cylch)

default native pl אָוו

More analytic than Colloquial Welsh, while Galoyseg is basically Cornish or Literary Welsh