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Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș. It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. h- is still added to vowel initial plural nouns but not adjectives. | Ballmer Ăn Yidiș sounds a bit like a Satmar Yiddish accent in Ăn Yidiș. It has lost gender and grammatical mutations and mutation has lexicalized to the form that came after the definite article. h- is still added to vowel initial plural nouns but not adjectives. | ||
Balmuriș noun plurals are regularly -ing (< -ig-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article '' | Balmuriș gained an animacy distinction: noun plurals are regularly -ing (< -ig-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''ănd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel. | ||
* | * ănd břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăn 'the judges' | ||
* | * ănd leynăv 'the child (not necessarily one's offspring)', nă leynăvn 'the children' | ||
* ăm beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies' | * ăm beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies' | ||
* | * ănd Idăch 'the Jew', nă Idăchn 'the Jews' | ||
* ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșining 'the roses' | * ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșining 'the roses' | ||
* ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofising 'the offices' | * ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofising 'the offices' | ||