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The standard variety today arose from an artificial compromise accent between Irta Yevani Hebrew and Tsarfati Hebrew, with an Ăn Yidiș-influenced accent and grammar. The accent would sound much like Israeli Hebrew with a Hiberno-English accent to people in our timeline, but it does not merge patach and qamatz gadol unlike our timeline's Modern Hebrew. Formal Hebrew is less of an Ăn Yidiș relex, and recent spoken Hebrew's more of an English relex and is becoming closer to Cualand Hebrew (our Modern Hebrew with an approximately Icelandic accent) or our Israeli Hebrew. | The standard variety today arose from an artificial compromise accent between Irta Yevani Hebrew and Tsarfati Hebrew, with an Ăn Yidiș-influenced accent and grammar. The accent would sound much like Israeli Hebrew with a Hiberno-English accent to people in our timeline, but it does not merge patach and qamatz gadol unlike our timeline's Modern Hebrew. Formal Hebrew is less of an Ăn Yidiș relex, and recent spoken Hebrew's more of an English relex and is becoming closer to Cualand Hebrew (our Modern Hebrew with an approximately Icelandic accent) or our Israeli Hebrew. | ||
Today most native speakers of Hebrew are non-Tsarfati Jews. It's more common for Tsarfatim to be native Ăn Yidiș speakers (in part due to | Today most native speakers of Hebrew are non-Tsarfati Jews. It's more common for Tsarfatim to be native Ăn Yidiș speakers (in part due to the secular Ǎn Yidiș movement). | ||
=== Phonology === | === Phonology === | ||
* Consonants: /ʔ b v g ɣ d ð h w z ħ tˁ j k x l m n s ʕ p f sˁ q r ʃ t θ/ = [(ʔ) b~p⁼ v g~k⁼ ɣ~ʁ d̪~t̪⁼~ð d̪~t̪⁼~ð h v z x~χ t̪ʰ~θ j kʰ x~χ l m n s (ʔ) pʰ f t̪s̪{{asp}} kʰ ɹ(ˠ) ʃ t̪ʰ~θ t̪ʰ~θ] | * Consonants: /ʔ b v g ɣ d ð h w z ħ tˁ j k x l m n s ʕ p f sˁ q r ʃ t θ/ = [(ʔ) b~p⁼ v g~k⁼ ɣ~ʁ d̪~t̪⁼~ð d̪~t̪⁼~ð h v z x~χ t̪ʰ~θ j kʰ x~χ l m n s (ʔ) pʰ f t̪s̪{{asp}} kʰ ɹ(ˠ) ʃ t̪ʰ~θ t̪ʰ~θ] |
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