Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions
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*short i, ui, often oi > î | *short i, ui, often oi > î | ||
*short o > ă | *short o > ă | ||
=== Stress === | |||
Most Hebrew and Aramaic loans are stressed on the second-to-last syllable, like Hebrew loans in Yiddish, but some common Hebrew and Aramaic loans are stressed on the initial or the third-from-last syllable instead, e.g. רבּנים ''rabănim'' 'rabbis'. What loans this happens to depends on dialect. | |||
=== Intonation=== | === Intonation=== | ||
Like Scottish Gaelic but mostly syllable-timed. but questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is just more exaggerated than normal. | Like Scottish Gaelic but mostly syllable-timed. but questions do not differ from declaratives in intonation. In exclamations the intonation is just more exaggerated than normal. | ||