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== Phonology ==
== Phonology ==
* ''ăm ăn ăl'' can become syllabic ''m n l'' like in our Yiddish. Unstressed i in closed syllables reduces to ă after this sound change, and older fortis resonants don't become syllabic, so the new syllabic resonants are potentially phonemic: cheshvn 'Cheshvan' and ''tfilăn'' 'tefillin'
* ''ăm ăn ăl'' can become syllabic ''m n l'' like in our Yiddish. Unstressed i in closed syllables reduces to ă after this sound change, and older fortis resonants don't become syllabic (ən:(vel) > O:n > ən), so the new syllabic resonants are potentially phonemic: cheshvn 'Cheshvan' and ''tfilăn'' 'tefillin'
* 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 like the rest of Tsarfati Hebrew.
* 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 like the rest of Tsarfati Hebrew.
** ă > o > u > ow; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
** ă > o > u > ow; oa > oy; ea > e > ey > ay > aa
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