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A-Tiberian Hebrew is the same as ours but with ejectives for emphatics instead of pharyngealized consonants.
As in our timeline, Hebrew accents in the AETHER timeline can be divided into three major types:
- Ashkenazi-type: segol, pataħ, and qamatz are all distinct; tav is lenited (e.g. Modern Standard, Gaelic)
- Sephardi-type: segol != pataħ = qamatz; tav is not lenited (e.g. Vertlandic)
- Babylonian-type: segol = pataħ != qamatz (e.g. Indian)
The standard and most commonly taught Hebrew accent is the same as the Lõisian "Revived Holy Land" accent (see Verse:Lõis/Hebrew).
Vertlandic
Vertlandic Jews (called "Sephardim" in-universe) should have an original accent, with
- begadkefat acts on /b d k p/ → /v ð x f/; /g ɣ/ are always [ŋ]
- glottal reinforcement before tet, tsadi, and kuf
- segol = ə, pataħ = QG = a, tsere = əy, ħolam = əw, ħiriq = i, QQ = shuruq = u
Gaelic/"Galician"
Similar to our Ashkenazi Hebrew, except
- /e ɔ o u/ are pronounced like Judeo-Gaelic ea o u î
- undageshed gimel is pronounced like Judeo-Gaelic gh
- /r/ is an alveolar flap
- /z/ is [ʒ]. It is [z] in Southern Galician.
Revived Galician Hebrew (revived by some secular L-Galician Jews) prefers Celtic syntax, such as VSO word order and expressions for feelings and modals. It also prefers some coincidentally Gaelic-sounding words (e.g. אַךְ ach 'but' and שָׂשׂ sos 'happy' instead of the synonyms אֲבָל avol and שָׂמֵחַ someach). For these reasons other Hebrew speakers may perceive Revived Galician Hebrew as higher-register. Religious Jews prefer to speak Judeo-Gaelic and refuse to speak any form of Revived Hebrew, because they view Hebrew as a sacred language.
Sample (Dror Yikra)
Hebrew | Standard | Judeo-Gaelic | Vertlandic |
---|---|---|---|
דְּרוֹר יִקְרָא לְבֵן עִם בַּת
וְיִנְצָרְכֶם כְּמוֹ בָבַת |
[dɹœɹ jiʔˈkɹo ləˈvɛn (ʔ)im baθ] |
[dəˈɾuɾ jiˈkʰɹo ləˈveən ʔim bas] |
[dəˈrəwr jiʔˈkra ləˈvəjn ʕim bat] |