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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

Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number.

The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels. The regular feminine plural is -øth.

køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages

bagbøg, bagbøgi (m) = bottle, bottles

i, iyø (m) = island, islands

gøfø, gøføth (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