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Syntax was retained as VSO under the influence of Celtic. | Syntax was retained as VSO under the influence of Celtic. | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Inflection==== | |||
The definite article was ''ʔa-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''ha-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''. | The definite article was ''ʔa-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''ha-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''. | ||
The Biblical feminine singular ending ''-ā'' became unstressed ''-a'', and the stress in feminine singular nouns shifted to penultimate. | |||
The construct state was not as "hard" as Tiberian Hebrew. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== |
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