Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer

Ballmer Ăn Yidiș (אן אידיש אס בּאַמאָר ăn Idiș ăs Bamăr or א בּאַמאָריש ă Bamăriș) originates from the Eastern US city of Ballmer (from בּאַלא מוֹר Bală Mur 'Big Village', Ḷbāḷdimōra in Palkhan; same location and same local pronunciation /boəlmər/ as our Baltimore). It's the most common Ăn Yidiș dialect in Haredi communities in Apple PIE US.

Written Ăn Yidiș is close to Standard Ăn Yidiș in Bamăriș-speaking communities. However, spoken Bamăriș is highly innovative compared to other dialects of Ăn Yidiș:

• the singular definite article is regularly ă (ăn before a vowel)
• Mutations have lexicalized like in Eevo.
• Ballmer Ăn Yidiș is tonal, having developed rising tone from lost gh: 'beautiful' is bžeé /pZě~pjě/ (Standard Ăn Yidiș břo, Proto-Ăn Yidiș břèğə)
• It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts:
  • ă > o > u; oa > o; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
  • u, ü > often i
  • /r/ is uvular

Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș. It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. h- is still added to vowel initial plural nouns but not adjectives.

Balmuriș noun plurals are regularly -ing (< -ig-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate:

• ă břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăn 'the judges'
• ă leynăv 'the child (not necessarily one's offspring)', nă leynăvn 'the children'
• ă beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies'
• ăn Idăch 'the Jew', nă Idăchn 'the Jews'
• ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșining 'the roses'
• ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofising 'the offices'
• ă chofș 'break; free time', nă chofșing 'breaks'

The present tense auxiliary תּאָ is pronounced tu when stressed (when a subject pronoun follows or when used as "yes") and t' or tă when unstressed (when a noun follows.