Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer
Ballmer Ăn Yidiș ( 'n Idiș oy Balmur or 'm Balmuriș) originates from the Eastern US city of Ballmer (from בּאלא 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 the Philadelphia area and in wider PA, it's highly innovative compared to other dialects of Ăn Yidiș.
- Mutations have lexicalized like in Eevo.
- Ballmer Ăn Yidiș is tonal, having developed falling tone from lost gh: 'beautiful' is břê /pZê/ (Standard Ăn Yidiș břo, Proto-Ăn Yidiș brèğə)
Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș. 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.
Balmuriș noun plurals are regularly -im if animate, -ăn if inanimate:
- 'm břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinim 'the judges'
- ă leynăv 'the child (not necessarily one's offspring)', nă leynăvim 'the children'
- 'm beybi 'the baby', nă beybim 'the babies'
- 'n Yidăch 'the Jew', nă Yidim 'the Jews'
- ă royșin 'the rose', nă royșinăn 'the roses'
- 'n ofis 'the office', nă hofisăn 'the offices'
- 'n hufș 'break; free time', nă hufșăn 'breaks'
(They're gonna use -im for everything in a hundred years, aren't they?)
- ă > o > u; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
- u, î, ü > often i
- /r/ is uvular
- ie = ii, ua = uu
mi, ti for Standard ĂnY me, tü
ă often omitted in conjunctions; ă syncopes a lot
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.