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Venetian Hebrew (ngiwrith /ˈɲiwriθ/) is a basilect of Hebrew spoken in Lõis's Northern Italy, Austria and Southern Germany.

Numbers: 0-10: afs, édh (m)/áth (f), hnay (m)/stay (f), σusz, arbøng, homisz, szesz, szew, hmun, teszøng, ngaσør

11-20: édh/áth ngaσør, hnay/stay ngaσør, σusz ngaσør, arbøng ngaσør, homisz ngaσør, szesz ngaσør, szew ngaσør, hmun ngaσør, teszøŋ ngaσør, ngaσre

40: stay ngaσre

60: σusz ngaσre

...

120: merkø

14400: rúø


Introduction

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

/m pʰ b f w n tʰ t˭ d θ ð ts s z ɬ ʂ j ŋ kʰ k˭ g x h l r/ m p b f w n t tt d th dh ts s z σ sz y ng k kk g kh h l r

Allophonic palatalization occurs before /ɛ/, /i/ or /j/. /ŋ kʰ k˭ g x/ palatalize to alveolopalatals /ɲ tɕʰ tɕ˭ dʑ ɕ/.

Mutations

Words can undergo initial lenition, as in Irish and Tiberian Hebrew. p- b- t- d- k- g- > f- w- th- dh- kh- Ø-

"Already lenited" consonants lenite as follows: f w th dh kh Ø > nf, nw, nth, ndh, nkh, n

Vowels

/a ɛ i ɔ u ə a: ɛ: i: ɔ: u: ə:/ = a e i o u ø á é í ó ú ǿ

Word-final /i/ is silent and palatalizes the preceding consonant.

Prosody

Stress

Stress is always penultimate.

Intonation

Phonotactics

Morphophonology

Morphology

Nouns and adjectives

Nouns are either masculine or feminine, and inflect for number. Adjectives agree with nouns in gender and number.

  • The regular feminine singular suffix is -ø or -th.
  • The regular masculine plural suffix is -i after consonants and -yø after vowels.
  • The regular feminine plural is -uth.

køfor, køfori (m) = village, villages

bagbøg, bagbøgi (m) = bottle, bottles

i, iyø (m) = island, islands

kkiszø, kkiszøyø (m) = squash, squashes

gøfø, gøfuth (f) = corpse, corpses

tagrith, tagriyuth (f) = incident, incidents

Verbs

Clauses take the form of inflected pronoun + preposition/aspect marker + verbal noun.

Copula

Inflection of the copula (Present tense)
→ Person
↓ Truth value
1sg 2sg.m 2sg.f 3sg.m 3sg.f 1pl.in 2pl 3pl
Affirmative ni to ad u i nan ti em
Interrogative ini intø int imu imi inan inti iyum
Negative eni ekhø ekh enu enø enen ekhi enøm

Syntax

Constituent order

Noun phrase

The definite article is a clitic:

  • Singular: -az (after C) or -zø (after V)
  • Plural: -il

Examples:

  • hadhør = a room
  • hadhraz = the room
  • hadhør godhul = a big room
  • hadhør godhulaz = the big room
  • boti godhuli = big houses
  • boti godhulil = the big houses

Verb phrase

Isz li rangu "I'm hungry"

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources