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Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. | Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender and number. | ||
The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels. The regular feminine plural is - | *The regular feminine singular suffix is -ø or -th. | ||
*The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels. | |||
*The regular feminine plural is -uth. | |||
køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages | køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages | ||
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i, iyø (m) = island, islands | i, iyø (m) = island, islands | ||
gøfø, | gøfø, gøfuth (f) = corpse, corpses | ||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
Revision as of 17:48, 22 September 2016
Venetian Hebrew is a basilect of Hebrew spoken in Lõis's Northern Italy, Austria and Southern Germany.
Introduction
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
/m pʰ b f w n tʰ t˭ d θ ð ts s z ʂ j ŋ kʰ k˭ g x h l r/ ⟨m p b f w n t tt d th dh ts s z sh y ng k kk g kh h l r⟩
Word-final unaspirated stops are realized as ejectives.
Allophonic palatalization occurs before /i/ or /j/. /ŋ kʰ k˭ g x/ palatalize to alveolopalatals /ɲ tɕʰ dʑ tɕ ɕ/.
Vowels
/a e i o u ə/ = ⟨a e i o u ø⟩
Word-final i is silent and palatalizes the preceding consonant.
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns and adjectives
Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender and number.
- The regular feminine singular suffix is -ø or -th.
- The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels.
- The regular feminine plural is -uth.
køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages
bagbøg, bagbøgi (m) = bottle, bottles
i, iyø (m) = island, islands
gøfø, gøfuth (f) = corpse, corpses
Syntax
Constituent order
Noun phrase
The definite article is a clitic: -az (after C) or -zø (after V).