Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer
Ballmer Ăn Yidiș ( 'n Yidiș oy Bală Mur or 'm Balămuriș) originates from the Eastern US city of Ballmer (from בּאַלא מאָר Bală Mur 'Big Village', Ḷbāḷdimōra in Palkhan; same location and same local pronunciation /boəlmər/ as our Baltimore). It died out in the Baltimore area itself but is now the main Ăn Yidiș dialect spoken in Japan.
Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș, but unlike Standard Ăn Yidiș it lacks "umlaut" of Proto-ĂnY *a before slender consonants, hence MIr baile > bală as opposed to Standard ĂnY belă. It has lost gender and mutations, but h- is added to vowel initial plural nouns and adjectives.
- ă > o > u; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
- u, î, ü > often i
- /r/ is uvular
- ie = Modern Wdm ie
mi, ti for Standard ĂnY me, tü
ă often omitted in conjunctions; ă syncopes a lot
Nes tă Zie 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 a Zie ă snuv șģien nă hișģn — tă Zie ni ru: "Reyv suls ni bi un!" 'S tă suls ni bi un. Tă Zie ni feyç 'n suls, găr ma e; 's tă Zie ni zeli izărn suls 's izărn dochădis. Tă Zie ni tig eynm "la" dăn suls, 's 'n dochădis tu șe ni tig eynm "ayșă" du. 'S v' erăv e '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).