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|fam6=(Pre-Exilic) Biblical Hebrew | |fam6=(Pre-Exilic) Biblical Hebrew | ||
|fam7=[[ | |fam7=[[Ancient Cubrite]] | ||
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''' | '''Cubrite''' (Canaanite: כﬞנאַאנידﬞ ''Xnánið'' /xnɛːnið/ or נומא כﬞנאַאן ''núm Xnán'' /niːm xnɛːn/, [[Togarmite]]: ''Xnoniþ'') is the sole surviving descendant of Biblical Hebrew, spoken by the Xnánø (כﬞנאַאנר) people in Lõis's Cyprus, Turkey, Armenia and the Levant. Genetic studies show that the Xnánø were originally Celtic speakers who adopted a form of Hebrew. The language preserves quite a few Biblical words and phraseology, but unlike Mishnaic and Israeli Hebrew its grammar was completely restructured to use auxiliaries instead of the older Hebrew tenses. | ||
It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English, Celtic and Khmer. | It's inspired grammatically by Welsh, and aesthetically by Cockney English, Celtic and Khmer. | ||
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Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number. | Nouns inflect for number and definiteness. Adjectives agree with nouns in number. | ||
{{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ־ר ''-ø'' (from a merger of | {{PAGENAME}} has regularized all plurals to ־ר ''-ø'' (from a merger of Ancient Cubrite ''-īm'' and ''-ōδ''). It also lost grammatical gender. | ||
Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: פדע ''pdą'' 'tree', פדערר ''pdąrø'' 'trees'. | Words ending in a nasal vowel or an R-colored vowel add an intrusive R between the final vowel and the plural suffix: פדע ''pdą'' 'tree', פדערר ''pdąrø'' 'trees'. | ||
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Degree markers: | Degree markers: | ||
*Equative: ''de-'' = as X as; equally X; X enough | *Equative: ''de-'' = as X as; equally X; X enough | ||
*Excessive: ''ro-'' = too (inherited from | *Excessive: ''ro-'' = too (inherited from Ancient Cubrite, which borrowed it from Celtic) | ||
*Comparative/Superlative: ''-ðør'' = more X or most X; comparandum takes פראָדﬞ ''proð'' 'than' (from Biblical Hebrew בראותי את ''*bi-rVʔōtī ʔet'' 'when I see ACC') | *Comparative/Superlative: ''-ðør'' = more X or most X; comparandum takes פראָדﬞ ''proð'' 'than' (from Biblical Hebrew בראותי את ''*bi-rVʔōtī ʔet'' 'when I see ACC') | ||