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Venetian Hebrew is a basilect of Hebrew spoken in Lõis's Northern Italy, Austria and Southern Germany.

Phonology

Consonants

/m pʰ b f w n tʰ t˭ d θ ð ts s z ʂ j ŋ kʰ k˭ g x h l r/ ⟨m p b f w n t tt d th dh ts s z sz y ng k kk g kh h l r⟩

Allophonic palatalization occurs before /i/ or /j/. /ŋ kʰ k˭ g x/ palatalize to alveolopalatals /ɲ tɕʰ dʑ tɕ ɕ/.

Vowels

/a e i o u ə/ = ⟨a e i o u ø⟩

Word-final /i/ is silent and palatalizes the preceding consonant.

Prosody

Stress

Stress is always initial.

Morphology

Nouns and adjectives

Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender and number.

• The regular feminine singular suffix is -ø or -th.
• The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels.
• The regular feminine plural is -uth.

køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages

bagbøg, bagbøgi (m) = bottle, bottles

i, iyø (m) = island, islands

kkiszø, kkiszøyø (m) = squash, squashes

gøfø, gøfuth (f) = corpse, corpses

Syntax

Noun phrase

The definite article is a clitic:

• Singular: -az (after C) or -zø (after V)
• Plural: -øl

hadhər = a room hadhəraz = the room hadhər godhul = a big room hadhər godhulaz = the big room