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Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer

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Ballmer Ăn Yidiș (ן אידיש אס בּאַמאָר n Idiș ăs Bamăr or ם בּאַמאָריש m Bamăriș) originates from the Eastern US city of Ballmer (from בּאַלא מוֹר Bală Mur 'Big Village', Ḷbāḷdimōra in Palkhan; same location and same local pronunciation /boəlmər/ as our Baltimore). It's the most common Ăn Yidiș dialect in Haredi communities in Apple PIE US.

Bamăriș is highly innovative compared to other dialects of Ăn Yidiș:

  • the singular definite article is prenasalization (ă before liquids and nasals)
  • Mutations have lexicalized like in Eevo.
  • Ballmer Ăn Yidiș is tonal, having developed rising tone from lost gh: 'beautiful' is břeé /pZě~pjě/ (Standard Ăn Yidiș břo, Proto-Ăn Yidiș brèğə)
  • It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts:
    • ă > o > u; oa > ow; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
    • u, ü > often i
    • /r/ is uvular

Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș. It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. But h- is added to vowel initial plural nouns and adjectives.

Balmuriș noun plurals are regularly -ăchn if animate, -(ă)n if inanimate:

  • 'm břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăchn 'the judges'
  • ă leynăv 'the child (not necessarily one's offspring)', nă leynăvăchn 'the children'
  • 'm beybi 'the baby', nă beybiăchn 'the babies'
  • 'n Idăch 'the Jew', nă Idăchn 'the Jews'
  • ă rowșin 'the rose', nă rowșinăn 'the roses'
  • 'n ofis 'the office', nă hofisn 'the offices'
  • 'n chufș 'break; free time', nă chufșn 'breaks'

Nes tă Zii ni tosi crihi ă nyev 's 'n tal — v' 'n tal nyu-feyrmlță 's fulv, 's vă dochădis ă cidăch 'n tohim, 's v' 'n șpirăd ăģ Zii ă snuv șģiin nă hișģn — tă Zii ni ru: "Reyv suls ni bi un!" 'S tă suls ni bi un. Tă Zii ni feyç 'n suls, găr ma ey; 's tă Zii ni zeli izărn suls is izărn dochădis. Tă Zii ni tig eynăm "la" dăn suls, 's 'n dochădis tu șă ni tig eynăm "ayșă" du. 'S v' erăv ey 's vă madn i, la eyhăd.

The present tense auxiliary תּאָ is pronounced tu when stressed (when a subject pronoun follows or when used as "yes") and t' or tă when unstressed (when a noun follows.

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