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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).

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources