Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin

Yudach or Judeo-Gaelic (natively: אנגאַלג' יודאַך anGhalj Yudach) is a Goidelic language spoken by the Irish-Jewish diaspora around the world. It mainly borrows words from Hebrew, but also from English, French and Welsh.

Phonology

• Consonants: b c ch č d f g gh j h l ł m n p r s š t th ts v y z /b k x tʃ d f g γ dʒ h l w m n p r s ʃ h ts j v z/
• Lenitions:
  • b /b/ > bh /v/
  • f /f/ > fh /0/
  • g /g/ > gh /ɣ/
  • c /k/ > ch /x/
  • č /tʃ/ > čh /ʃ/
  • p /p/ > ph /f/
  • s /s/ > sh /h/
  • t /t/ > th /h/
  • tz /ts/ > tzh /h/
  • z /z/ > zh /j/
  • j /dʒ/ > jh /j/
• ts z č j arise from slender t d c g.
• Vowels: a e i o u /a e i o u/, vowel reduction to /ə/ common

Grammar

the grammar should be modelled after colloquial welsh

תּאָ מע אַ-ל'אַסאַג נרות חנוכּה.

To me a-łasagh neroth hanuca.

/to me ə 'wasəɣ 'nerəh 'hanukə/

I'm lighting Hanukkah candles. (or I light Hanukkah candles)

Nouns

Nouns have no grammatical case.

Plurals are more regular, marked with mostly -n/-an or -i.

Nouns in -a are usually pluralized with -i: madra 'a dog', madri 'dogs'.

Hebrew words often use unstressed -im /im/ or -oth /əh/ but native Celtic words may use them too.

Possessive pronouns

• mo bhrother /mo vrohəɾ/ 'my brother'; m'ather /mahəɾ/ 'my father'
• do bhrother /do vrohəɾ/ 'thy brother'; d'ather /dahəɾ/ 'thy father'
• a bhrother /ə vrohəɾ/ 'his brother'; a ather /a ahəɾ/ 'his father'
• ah brother /ə brohəɾ/ 'her brother'; ah ather /əh ahəɾ/ 'her father'
• or bhrother /oɾ brohəɾ/ 'our brother'; or n-ather /oɾ nahəɾ/ 'our father'
• bhar bhrother /vəɾ brohəɾ/ 'your brother'; bhar n-ather /vəɾ naheɾ/ 'your father'
• a bhrother /a brohəɾ/ 'their brother'; a n-ather /ə nahəɾ/ 'their father'

m' and d' are used before a vowel, a /j/ or when a lenited f results in an initial vowel or /j/: fyur /fjuɾ/ 'sister'; m'fhyur /mjuɾ/ 'my sister'.