Judeo-Gaelic

Judeo-Chinese is a descendant of Middle Chinese adopted by Chinese Jews in Verse:Tumhan, written in a version of the Hebrew alphabet. Like other Chinese varieties, it is a tonal language and is unintelligible to speakers of other Chinese lects.

Phonology

Initials

Consonant phonemes

		Labial		Dental		Retroflex	Velar		Laryngeal
		broad	slender	broad	slender		slender	broad
Nasal		mˠ	mʲ	n̪ˠ	nʲ		ŋʲ	ŋ
Stop	plain			t̪ˠ	tʲ		kʲ	k	ʔ
	aspirated	pˠʰ	pʲʰ	t̪ˠʰ	tʲʰ		kʲʰ	kʰ
	voiced	bˠ	bʲ	d̪ˠ	dʲ		ɟ	g
Affricate	plain			t̪sˠ	tsʲ	tʂ
	aspirated			t̪sˠʰ	tsʲʰ	tʂʰ
	voiced			d̪zˠ	dzʲ	dʐ
Fricative	voiceless	fˠ	fʲ	sˠ	sʲ	ʂ	xʲ	x	h
	voiced	vˠ	vʲ	zˠ	zʲ		ɣʲ	ɣ
Approximant				l̪ˠ	lʲ	ɻ	j

Rimes

(baxter) a, wa, ja, jwa > a, å, ja, jå? "i" was ngaX

yes actually a, å, ia, iå (i = palatalization) ae, wae, jae > ä, œ/ø, iä (ä = /ε/) u, jo, ju > u, iø, iu (all this assumes the syllable is initial and thus stressed, perhaps there's reduction in unstressed syllables)

what's ø? as in myuftseezh? (that's what the <iø> combination makes me think of 😀 ) some kind of front rounded vowel maybe /œ/ -j final codas: óigh bhféigh, there's a shitton of them

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oj, ajH > aj woj, wajH > åj

so is there a vowel split based on tone? ajH and aejH only occur with H eaj, aejH > äj

ä = finnish ä? could be weaj, waejH > öj jejH, jiejH, jwejH, jwiejH might have the same outcome as je, jie, jwe, jwie those finals with -ji- are called chongniu finals i could merge jiej completely with jej like mandarin does or they could be different i'll treat jiej like jij and jwiej like jwij je(j), jwe(j) > ie, iüö? or maybe /'ie, 'üö/ ej, wej > /ie, yø/ or maybe ie and üö should be /e, ø/ joj, jwoj > /ej, øj/

here's something CRAZY a literally-read irish sinolang with /aoi/ as a rime ij, jij, wij, jwij > /i, 'i, y, 'y/ i > /i/ j+j, jw+j > /'i, 'y/ maube all those y's shd really be uj's -jew > -y'hudi 😀 aw, aew, jew, jiew, ew, uw, juw, jiw > /aw, äw, 'aw, 'ew, äw, u, 'u, ew/

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i like -y'hudi actually sorry aw, aw, iaw, iew, ew, u, iu, iew om, am, eam, aem, jem, jiem, jaem, jom, em, im, jim > um, om, am, am, iem, im, iam, iom, ium, em, im, jim

looks good (similarly for -p rimes)

-ium 😀 an, wan, aen, waen, ean, wean > an, ån, än, ön, en, øn

ann, uann, ainn, uainn, eann, uainn in a literal irish version jen, jwen, jon, jwon > ien, iøn, ion, iun en, wen, on, won > en, øn, on, un in, jin, win, jwin, j+n, jun > in, yn, un, iun, in, iun y = hard /i/

ngá = I in literal irishy sinitic

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ak, wak, jak, jwak > ak, åk, iak, iåk aewk > ?

aoigh auk?

that works ok, wok, ik, wik > ok, uk, ik, uk aek, waek, eak, waek > äk, ök, äk, ök jaek, jwaek > iäk, iök jek jwek ek wek > iek iøk ek øk uwk owk juwk jowk > uk ok iuk iok i might do something with œ and ø make them central vowels maybe merge them to ə or œ > a, ø > ə

œ > a is interesting i have a æ e i o u ə in the end - like Rõktiap 😀 actually å will also merge to o