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* the singular definite article is regularly ''ă'' (''ăn'' before a vowel) | * the singular definite article is regularly ''ă'' (''ăn'' before a vowel) | ||
* Mutations have lexicalized like in [[Eevo]]. | * Mutations have lexicalized like in [[Eevo]]. | ||
* It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts; the resulting Hebrew reading is coincidentally similar to our Satmar/Poylish Hebrew, just with stop voicing weirdness. | |||
* It has a 5-vowel system like Yiddish, with the following vowel shifts; the resulting Hebrew reading is coincidentally similar to our Satmar/Poylish Hebrew. | |||
** ă > o > u > ow; oa > o; ea > e > ey > ay > aa | ** ă > o > u > ow; oa > o; ea > e > ey > ay > aa | ||
** u, ü > often i | ** u, ü > often i | ||
** /r/ is uvular | ** /r/ is uvular | ||
** gimel rafe and native ''gh'' are [g] | |||
* 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. | * 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. | * 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. | ||