Verse:Irta/Judeo-Mandarin/Ballmer: Difference between revisions

* 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 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', nă leynăvn 'the children'

** ănd beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies'

** ănd Idăch 'the Jew', nă hIdăchn 'the Jews'

** ă roșin 'the rose', nă roșining 'the roses'

** ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofising 'the offices'

** ă chofș 'break; free time', nă chofșing 'breaks'