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==Baden Hebrew==
==Baden Hebrew==
==[[TT-English]] Hebrew==
==[[TT-English]] Hebrew==
TT-English Hebrew is mostly like our Ashkenazi Hebrew, except that all of the begadkefat consonants except /g/ preserve the lenition. The exact accent would depend on the speaker's native English accent; the given values are the L-Standard English values.
TT-English Hebrew is mostly like our Ashkenazi Hebrew, except that all of the begadkefat consonants except /g/ preserve the lenition. English Hebrew is one of the most conservative modern Lõisian reading tradition (i.e. closest to Tiberian Hebrew).  The exact accent would depend on the speaker's native English accent; the given values are the L-Standard English values.


Jews started speaking English after English underwent the Great Vowel Shift and entered the Northern Levant Sprachbund, which was soon after Tiberian Hebrew niqqud was standardized around AD 900.
Jews started speaking English after English underwent the Great Vowel Shift and entered the Northern Levant Sprachbund, which was soon after Tiberian Hebrew niqqud was standardized around AD 900.
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===Vowels===
===Vowels===
English Hebrew vowels are very conservative (closest to Tiberian Hebrew).  
English Hebrew distinguishes between all of the Tiberian Hebrew vowels.
*patach = chataf patach = TRAP /a/ in open stressed syllables / PALM /ɑː/ in closed or unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''.
*patach = chataf patach = TRAP /a/ in open stressed syllables / PALM /ɑː/ in closed or unstressed syllables. Usually transcribed ''a''.
*segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''.
*segol = chataf segol = DRESS /ɛ/. Usually transcribed ''e''.