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'''Cubrite''' (Cubrite: כﬞנאַאנידﬞ '' | '''Cubrite''' (Cubrite: כﬞנאַאנידﬞ ''Cubrite'' /xnɛːnið/ or נומא כﬞנאַאן ''núm Xnán'' /niːm xnɛːn/, [[Togarmite]]: ''Xnoniþ'') is the sole surviving descendant of Biblical Hebrew in [[Lõis]], spoken by the Cubrites in the Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia and the Levant. Genetic studies show that the Cubrites were originally Celtic speakers who adopted a form of Hebrew. The language preserves quite a few Biblical words and phraseology, but unlike Jewish Hebrew its grammar was completely restructured to use auxiliaries instead of the older Hebrew tense conjugations. | ||
It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English, Celtic and Khmer. | It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English, Celtic and Khmer. | ||
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==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
Modern | Modern Cubrite is written in the Jewish Hebrew square script, in a spelling based on Tiberian Hebrew. (The resulting spelling is not etymological, since Cubrite reflects the original Hebrew consonants differently.) This is because most earlier works in Modern Cubrite were written by Jews, mainly educational materials in Judaism. | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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Consonant correspondences (by default): | Consonant correspondences (by default): | ||
*Hebrew ד > | *Hebrew ד > Cubrite ט/ד | ||
*Hebrew ת > | *Hebrew ת > Cubrite ת◌ﬞ/דﬞ | ||
*Hebrew ט > | *Hebrew ט > Cubrite ת | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
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*ben- = agentive | *ben- = agentive | ||
**פנאַר ''pnar'' 'wolf' comes from pre- | **פנאַר ''pnar'' 'wolf' comes from pre-Cubrite *בן הר 'son-of mountain' | ||
*beδ- = place noun | *beδ- = place noun | ||
*bəd-/pd- = singulative of a collective noun | *bəd-/pd- = singulative of a collective noun | ||
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! | ! Cubrite !! Masoretic Hebrew (transl.) | ||
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