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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).