Weddish

Progress 51%
	Stats Nouns 60% Verbs 62% Adjectives 65% Syntax 27% Words 50 of 1500

Weddish Vediš
Type
Fusional
Alignment
Ergative-Absolutive
Head direction
Second
Tonal
No
Declensions
No
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
No
Nouns decline according to...
Case	Number
Definiteness	Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice	Mood
Person	Number
Tense	Aspect

General information

In 1946, a group of American Ashkenazi Orthodox and Messianic Jews founded a kibbutz near Bilbao, Spain.  They were reacting to their perception that the nation of Israel was being founded on Zionist, anti-Yiddish principles. Weddish was created as an auxiliary language to bridge the gap between Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and some Basque. The decision was made early on to engineer in the dual number as a fundamental yet symbolically-rich part of the language. The Hebrew/Aramaic alphabet is the exclusive script, both as an alphabet and as a "pointed" abjad.

Phonology

Weddish phonology is quite close to English, except the absence of 'w', the abundance of 'x' and the simplification of the vowel system. American r's are undesirable, and should be said in the German or Scottish manner.

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n			(ŋ)
Plosive	b p	d t			g k	ʔ
Fricative	v f	z s	ž š		_ x	_ h
Affricate		dz c	dž č
Approximant		l		j	r

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Low		a

Alphabet

Weddish uses the Hebrew in the Yiddish fashion. The nasals (m and n) are מ and נ. The stops (b, p, d, t, g, k, ʔ) are ב and פ and ד and ט and ג and ק and א. The fricative (v, f, z, s, š, x, h) are װ and פֿ and ז and ס and ש and כ and ה. The fricative ž is a digraph: זש. Only one affricate is not a digraph c: צ. Two affricates (dz and č) are digraphs: דז and טש. dž is a trigraph: דזש. The approximants (l, j, r) are ל and י and ר.

Five letters have different forms when they appear at the end of word. These forms do not affect pronunciation. m, n, f, x, and c --- when they appear at the end of a word --- are ם and ן and ף and ך and ץ.

There are seven symbols which only appear in loan words. שֿ and תֿ are other s's. כּ is another k. It is written as ךּ at the end of a word. ח is another x. בֿ is another v. ת is another t.

Normally, Weddish is written as an alphabet, like European languages. The vowels (a,e,i,o,u) are אַ and ע and י and אָ and ו. The diphthongs (au,ai,ei,oi,ou) are אַו and ײַ and ײ and ױ and אָו.

There is, however, an alternative style for religious and important documents. In it, vowels are written exclusively as "points" around the consonants. For example, the sounds ba,be,bi,bo,bu,bau,bai,bei,boi,bou are written as בַ and בֶ and בִ and בָ and בֻ and בֲ and בֱ and בֵ and בֹ and בֳ. Syllabic consonants receive the schwa, e.g. לְ.

Phonotactics

Weddish is only slightly less free than Yiddish in its phonotactics. Almost anything is possible!

Grammar

	Gender	Cases	Numbers	Tenses	Persons	Moods	Voices	Aspects
Verb	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Nouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Adjectives	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Numbers	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Participles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Adverb	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Pronouns	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Adpositions	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No
Article	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Particle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Vocabulary

No.	English	Weddish
1	I	mix
2	you (singular)	dix
3	he	'im
4	we	mir
5	you (plural)	'ayx
6	they	cey
7	this	—
8	that	—
9	here	—
10	there	—
11	who	—
12	what	—
13	where	—
14	when	—
15	how	—
16	not	—
17	all	—
18	many	—
19	some	—
20	few	—
21	other	—
22	one	'eyns
23	two	cvey
24	three	dray
25	four	fir
26	five	finef
27	big	—
28	long	—
29	wide	—
30	thick	—
31	heavy	—
32	small	—
33	short	—
34	narrow	—
35	thin	—
36	woman	—
37	man (adult male)	—
38	man (human being)	—
39	child	—
40	wife	—
41	husband	—
42	mother	mame
43	father	tate
44	animal	—
45	fish	—
46	bird	—
47	dog	—
48	louse	—
49	snake	—
50	worm	—
51	tree	—
52	forest	—
53	stick	—
54	fruit	—
55	seed	—
56	leaf	—
57	root	—
58	bark	—
59	flower	—
60	grass	—
61	rope	—
62	skin	—
63	meat	—
64	blood	—
65	bone	—
66	fat	—
67	egg	—
68	horn	—
69	tail	—
70	feather	—
71	hair	hor
72	head	kop
73	ear	'oyer
74	eye	'oyg
75	nose	noz
76	mouth	moyl
77	tooth	—
78	tongue	—
79	fingernail	—
80	foot	fis
81	leg	—
82	knee	—
83	hand	hent
84	wing	—
85	belly	bayxele
86	guts	—
87	neck	—
88	back	—
89	breast	—
90	heart	—
91	liver	—
92	drink	—
93	eat	—
94	bite	—
95	suck	—
96	spit	—
97	vomit	—
98	blow	—
99	breathe	—
100	laugh	—
101	see	—
102	hear	—
103	know	—
104	think	—
105	smell	—
106	fear	—
107	sleep	—
108	live	—
109	die	—
110	kill	—
111	fight	—
112	hunt	—
113	hit	—
114	cut	—
115	split	—
116	stab	—
117	scratch	—
118	dig	—
119	swim	—
120	fly	—
121	walk	—
122	come	—
123	lie	—
124	sit	—
125	stand	—
126	turn	—
127	fall	—
128	give	geb
129	hold	—
130	squeeze	—
131	rub	—
132	wash	—
133	wipe	—
134	pull	—
135	push	—
136	throw	—
137	tie	—
138	sew	—
139	count	—
140	say	—
141	sing	—
142	play	—
143	float	—
144	flow	—
145	freeze	—
146	swell	—
147	sun	zun
148	moon	levone
149	star	šter
150	water	vaser
151	rain	regn
152	river	—
153	lake	—
154	sea	—
155	salt	—
156	stone	—
157	sand	—
158	dust	—
159	earth	—
160	cloud	—
161	fog	—
162	sky	—
163	wind	—
164	snow	—
165	ice	—
166	smoke	—
167	fire	—
168	ash	—
169	burn	—
170	road	—
171	mountain	—
172	red	royt
173	green	grin
174	yellow	gel
175	white	vays
176	black	švarc
177	night	—
178	day	—
179	year	—
180	warm	—
181	cold	—
182	full	—
183	new	—
184	old	—
185	good	—
186	bad	—
187	rotten	—
188	dirty	—
189	straight	—
190	round	—
191	sharp	—
192	dull	—
193	smooth	—
194	wet	—
195	dry	—
196	correct	—
197	near	—
198	far	—
199	right	—
200	left	—
201	at	—
202	in	—
203	with	—
204	and	—
205	if	'oyf
206	because	—
207	name	—