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 ** gimel rafe and native ''gh'' are [g]
 * It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. h- is still added to vowel initial plural nouns but not adjectives.
-* Balmuriș gained an animacy distinction: noun plurals are regularly -ing (< -ug-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''ănd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel.
+* Balmuriș gained an animacy distinction: non-Hebrew/Aramaic noun plurals are regularly -iņ (< -ug-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''ănd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel.
 ** ănd břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăn 'the judges'
 ** ănd leynăv 'the child', nă leynăvn 'the children'
 ** ănd beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies'
 ** ănd Idăch 'the Jew', nă hIdăchn 'the Jews'
-** ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșining 'the roses'
+** ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșiniņ 'the roses'
-** ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofising 'the offices'
+** ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofisiņ 'the offices'
-** ă chofș 'break; free time', nă chofșing 'breaks'
 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.