Verse:Irta/Judajsr
Izeweg (אַן יעס אידעוועק [an jes i'zeweg] 'the Jewish language') is the traditional Northern European Jewish ("Tsarfati") vernacular in Irta. It's (essentially) a Brythonic Celtic language and a descendant of Old Galoyseg. It's a possible answer to the question "What would a Jewish Celtic language look like?"
In-universe English name?
Essentially a Judeo-Breton~Welsh
PIE ē becomes tzere
Lexicon
- בּראַן (m) 'crow, raven' (*bran)
- קאָרס (m) 'enclosure' (*gawrth)
- יעס (f) 'language' (*jeith)
- רעי (m) 'king (*rēγ)
Writing
Vowels
/a aj e ej i o oj u uj y aw ew iw ow/ אַ אַי ע עי אי אָ אָי אוֹ אוֹי אוּ אַוו עוו איוו אָוו
Consonants
Default native spelling
Abstract c g ch gh ng ngh כּ ק כ ג נק נכּ
Abstract t d th dh n nh תּ ט ת ד נ נתּ
Abstract p b ph bh m mh פּ בּ פ ב מ מפּ
j r l ll w s š h 2 י ר ל לּ וו ס ש ה א
Mutations
The new consonant is prefixed in front of the mutated word with a hyphen: אַנאַ נתּ-תּוֹרה ana nhToyro 'in the Torah'.
Hebrew reading
Izeweg has no vowel reduction in Hebrew and Aramaic loans, unlike Yiddish. Stress is just shifted to penultimate (as in native Izeweg).
/2 b v g γ d δ h w z H T j k x l m n s 3 p f S q r š t θ/ = [(none)~2 p= v g x t= δ~z h w δ~z h t= j kh x l m n s (none)~2 ph f ts= k= r š th s]
TibH /i e E a O o u ŠN HP HS HQ/ = [i ej~aj e a o u y a a e o]
L dagesh > Welsh ll. Some pronounce sin as ll.
Mutations
Same as in Welsh but
- g post vocalically mutates to c'h
- no m > v
- ll but no rh
- t spirant mutates to s
Grammar
Indef article אין, def article אַן
"in" combining form with def article is אַנאַ or אַנאַן, otherwise it's מעוון (even when the noun is semantically definite)
default native pl אָוו
More analytic than Colloquial Welsh, while Galoyseg is basically Cornish or Literary Welsh