Netagin/Sketchbook

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Optimized for piyyutim (final stress, stressed endings) without being Hebrew gibberish

Phonology

Consonants

p b t d ṭ ḍ č dž k g ʔ s š z ž x h m n ṇ l ḷ r w j

Vowels

a e i o u ö ü

Reduced vowels: a~ə ɨ

Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə

Stress

Usually final, some penultimately-stressed "segolates" CVCVC or CVCCV

Grammar

SVO, tends head-initial but some head-final allowed

Many (stressed) grammatical suffixes

Gender markers:

masc. -0, pl. -en

fem. -as, pl. -es