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|name=Weddish
|name=Weddish
|nativename=Weðisk
|nativename=Weðisk
|states=Wales
|region=[[w:Wales|Wales]]
|familycolor = Indo-European
|familycolor = Indo-European
|fam1=[[w:Indo-European_languages|Indo-European]]
|fam2=[[w:Germanic languages|Germanic]]
|fam3=[[w:West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
|fam4=[[w:Ingvaeonic languages|Ingvaeonic]]
|fam5=[[w:Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo–Frisian]]
|ancestor=[[w:Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]]
|ancestor2=[[w:Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]]
|ancestor3=[[w:Olf Frisian|Old Frisian]]
|script        =  [[w:Hebrew script|Hebrew]]
|script        =  [[w:Hebrew script|Hebrew]]
|creator = [[User:Aquatiki|Robert Murphy]]
|creator = [[User:Aquatiki|Robert Murphy]]
|speakers = 40 000
|date = 2015 census
|iso3=wds
|agency=Beth Diyn d'Weddisk
|notice=IPA
}}
}}


'''Weddish''' is a [[w:West Germanic language]] spoken by several small communities within [[w:Wales]].  Approximately 50,000 people speak Weddish as their L1.  It is of considerable interest to linguists and ethnographers, because of its complex history and unique place in the world.
'''Weddish''' is a [[w:West Germanic language]] spoken by several small communities within [[w:Wales]].  Approximately 40,000 people speak Weddish as their L1.  It is of considerable interest to linguists and ethnographers, because of its complex history and unique place in the world.


Weddish appears to have begun as a dialect of [[w:Old Frisian]], which fell under the influence of its Welsh-speaking neighbors (unlike its Anglo-Saxon kin).  It was "conquered" by Jews in 1066, and "freed" by the [[w:Edict of Expulsion]] in 1290, and so returned to being under Welsh influence.
Weddish appears to have begun as a dialect of [[w:Old Frisian]], which fell under the influence of its Welsh-speaking neighbors (unlike its Anglo-Saxon kin).  It was "conquered" by Jews in 1066, and "freed" by the [[w:Edict of Expulsion]] in 1290, and so returned to being under Welsh influence.
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{{Main|Weddish/History}}
{{Main|Weddish/History}}
=== Early Antiquity ===
=== Early Antiquity ===
Weddish was born under a different name: Frisian.  While there are individual words that cannot be explained under this rubric, the overwhelming majority of Weddish vocabulary is clearly of Frisia – not Anglo-Saxon – ancestry.  While the differences are small, the evidence is clear.  Unlike the Frisians of the continent, however, and unlike the conquering Anglo-Saxons, the ancestors of the Wedds were heavily influenced by the nearby Celts.  The Old Welsh language rubbed off on Old Weddish, winnowing many consonant clusters, producing significant vowel changes, and greatly altering the phonology and phonotactics.
Weddish was born under a different name: Frisian.  While there are individual words that cannot be explained under this rubric, the overwhelming majority of Weddish vocabulary is clearly of Frisian – not Anglo-Saxon – ancestry.  While the differences are small, the evidence is clear.  Unlike the Frisians of the continent, however, and unlike the conquering Anglo-Saxons, the ancestors of the Wedds were heavily influenced by the nearby Celts.  The Old Welsh language rubbed off on Old Weddish, winnowing many consonant clusters, producing significant vowel changes, and greatly altering the phonology and phonotactics.


Old Welsh (Proto-Brythonic) also gave Weddish is system of consonantal mutations.  Certain words and grammatical processes trigger regular changes in the first consonant of the ''next'' word.  This is also the only period where Latin words came into the language (until the modern, international terminology).
Old Welsh (Proto-Brythonic) also gave Weddish is system of consonantal mutations.  Certain words and grammatical processes trigger regular changes in the first consonant of the ''next'' word.  This is also the only period where Latin words came into the language (until the modern, international terminology).


=== Late Antiquity ===
=== Late Antiquity ===
Some time in the eighth or ninth century, a charismatic leader supposedly brought the Weddish community into his quasi-Jewish cult.  He also introduced two key elements of the Basque language into Weddish: ergative-absolutive morphosyntax and animate-inanimate distinctions in noun phrases.   
Some time in the eighth or ninth century, a charismatic leader supposedly brought the Weddish community into his quasi-Jewish cult.  He also introduced two key elements of the Basque language into Weddish: ergative-absolutive morphosyntax and animate-inanimate distinctions in noun phrases.  Folk stories continue to warn young Wedds of the danger of crying wolf, i.e. being like Horsa and hiding under the auspice of false-Judaism, when he was actually just creating a cult.


=== 1066 ===
=== 1066 ===
Will the arrival of William the Conqueror, ''actual'' Jews arrived from the Continent and called the Wedd's bluff.  Mandatory Hebrew schools were formed, and a similar situation to the rest of the U.K. developed for two centuries.  The elites and leaders spoke Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic.  The common folk spoke Weddish.
With the arrival of William the Conqueror, ''actual'' Jews arrived from the Continent and called the Wedd's bluff.  Mandatory Hebrew schools were formed, and a similar situation to the rest of the U.K. developed for two centuries.  The elites and leaders spoke Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judeo-Arabic.  Ethnic Jews arrived from Spain and the continent.  The common folk spoke Weddish, but like England with the Norman language, Hebrew dominated the upper crust.


=== 1290 ===
=== 1290 ===
When Edward I issued the edict of expulsion in 1290, the influence of external Jewry ceased, and all appearance of Judaism had to be removed from the public eye.  The Wedds had their own Domus Conversorum set up, and were allowed to create their own monastic order, where the vows of marriage were conjoined with the vows of holy orders.  Hebrew school continued in private, with Talmud and Maimonides studies ongoing for several more centuries.  Because they were not allowed to officiate over the Mass, Weddish "convents" avoided much of the accreting philosophy, and were among the hotbeds of Protestant theology, until the [[w:Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542]].
When Edward I issued the edict of expulsion in 1290, the influence of external Jewry ceased, and all appearance of Judaism had to be removed from the public eye.  The Wedds had their own Domus Conversorum set up, and were allowed to create their own monastic order, where the vows of marriage were conjoined with the vows of holy orders.  Hebrew schools continued in private, with Talmud and Maimonides studies ongoing on for several more centuries.  Because they were not allowed to officiate over the Mass, Weddish "convents" avoided much of the accreting philosophy, and were among the hotbeds of Protestant theology, until the [[w:Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542]]. 
 
With the decline of the surrounding Welsh culture, Wedds happily retreated into the background.  By the 19th century, however, a growing concern over the state of the Western world had settled in, and after several Weddish-wide councils, a missions-through-monasticism philosophy was official ensconced in the Weddish laws.  Since then, they have actively been involved in evangelism and scholarly theology.  [[w:James B. Jordan]] and his [[w:Christian Reconstructionist]] theology have become the mainstay of Weddish discourse.


== Phonology ==
== Phonology ==
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=== Morphophonology ===
=== Morphophonology ===
Mutation
Mutation
{{Template:Improvesection}}
 
{| {{Table/bluetable}}
! Initial !! Soft !! Nasal !! Aspirate
|-
! p
| b || mh || f
|-
! t
| d || nh || þ
|-
! q
| g || ŋh || c
|-
! b
| v || m ||
|-
! d
| ð || n ||
|-
! g
| j || ŋ ||
|-
! m
| w || ||
|-
! ll
| l || ||
|-
! rh
| r || ||
|-
! wh
| w || ||
|-
! yh
| y || ||
|}
 




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{{Main|Weddish/Lexicography}}
{{Main|Weddish/Lexicography}}
{{See|the complete Swadesh list with relative language comparisons,|Weddish/Swadesh}}
{{See|the complete Swadesh list with relative language comparisons,|Weddish/Swadesh}}
{{Swadesh
|language=Weddish
|nativename=ידסק
|I= אח
|you (singular)= תו
|he=אי
|we= וי
|you (plural)= יהי
|they=יהא
|this=דה
|that=ין
|here=היר
|there=שם
|who=והא
|what=והט
|where=והר
|when=והן
|how=והו
|not=נט
|all=אל
|many=מנך
|some=סום
|few=מן
|other=אודר
|one=אן
|two=טוי
|three=תרי
|four=פויר
|five=פיף
|big=גרוט
|long=לע
|wide=ויד
|thick=תך
|heavy=חור
|small=שוטל
|short=קורת
|narrow=סמול
|thin=תוין
|woman=פרו
|man (adult male)=
|Man (human being)=
|child=
|wife=
|husband=
|mother=
|father=
|animal=
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|dog=
|louse=
|snake=
|worm=
|tree=
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|seed=
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|flower=
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|skin=
|meat=
|blood=
|bone=
|fat (n.)=
|egg=
|horn=
|tail=
|feather=
|hair=
|head=
|ear=
|eye=
|nose=
|mouth=
|tooth=
|tongue=
|fingernail=
|foot=
|leg=
|knee=
|hand=
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|bite=
|suck=
|spit=
|vomit=
|blow=
|breathe=
|laugh=
|see=
|hear=
|know=
|think=
|smell=
|fear=
|sleep=
|live=
|die=
|kill=
|fight=
|hunt=
|hit=
|cut=
|split=
|stab=
|scratch=
|dig=
|swim=
|fly (v.)=
|walk=
|come=
|lie=
|sit=
|stand=
|turn=
|fall=
|give=
|hold=
|squeeze=
|rub=
|wash=
|wipe=
|pull=
|push=
|throw=
|tie=
|sew=
|count=
|say=
|sing=
|play=
|float=
|flow=
|freeze=
|swell=
|sun=
|moon=
|star=
|water=
|rain=
|river=
|lake=
|sea=
|salt=
|stone=
|sand=
|dust=
|earth=
|cloud=
|fog=
|sky=
|wind=
|snow=
|ice=
|smoke=
|fire=
|ashes=
|burn=
|road=
|mountain=
|red=
|green=
|yellow=
|white=
|black=
|night=
|day=
|year=
|warm=
|cold=
|full=
|new=
|old=
|good=
|bad=
|rotten=
|dirty=
|straight=
|round=
|sharp=
|dull=
|smooth=
|wet=
|dry=
|correct=
|near=
|far=
|right=
|left=
|at=
|in=
|with=
|and=
|if=
|because=
|name=
}}
Weddish words are well-defined by historical epochs.  From their inception to 1066, the Wedds were warriors, and then farmers.  Agrarian words and grammatical words are of Germanic origin, and most illustrate that Weddish came from Old Frisian, though a few look more like Old English.  Also, some Welsh words entered in this time, including some Latin words which where already in Old Welsh.   
Weddish words are well-defined by historical epochs.  From their inception to 1066, the Wedds were warriors, and then farmers.  Agrarian words and grammatical words are of Germanic origin, and most illustrate that Weddish came from Old Frisian, though a few look more like Old English.  Also, some Welsh words entered in this time, including some Latin words which where already in Old Welsh.   


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