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==Baden Hebrew== | ==Baden Hebrew== | ||
==[[TT-English]] Hebrew== | ==[[TT-English]] Hebrew== | ||
TT-English Hebrew is mostly like our Ashkenazi Hebrew, except that all of the begadkefat consonants except /g/ preserve the lenition | TT-English Hebrew is mostly like our Ashkenazi Hebrew, except that all of the begadkefat consonants except /g/ preserve the lenition. The exact accent would depend on the speaker's native English accent; the given values are the L-Standard English values. | ||
Jews started speaking English after English underwent the Great Vowel Shift and entered the Northern Levant Sprachbund, which was soon after Tiberian Hebrew niqqud was standardized around AD 900. | Jews started speaking English after English underwent the Great Vowel Shift and entered the Northern Levant Sprachbund, which was soon after Tiberian Hebrew niqqud was standardized around AD 900. | ||
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
English Hebrew vowels are very conservative (closest to Tiberian Hebrew). | |||
*patach = chataf patach = TRAP /a/ in open stressed syllables / PALM /ɑː/ in closed or unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''. | *patach = chataf patach = TRAP /a/ in open stressed syllables / PALM /ɑː/ in closed or unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''. | ||
*segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''. | *segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''. | ||