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Syntax was retained as VSO under the influence of Celtic.
Syntax was retained as VSO under the influence of Celtic.
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
====Inflection====
The definite article was ''ʔa-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''ha-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''.
The definite article was ''ʔa-'' (from Biblical Hebrew ''ha-''). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ''ʔā-''.
The Biblical feminine singular ending ''-ā'' became unstressed ''-a'', and the stress in feminine singular nouns shifted to penultimate.
The construct state was not as "hard" as Tiberian Hebrew.


===Verbs===
===Verbs===
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