Judeo-Chinese [JUC]
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Language type
A posteriori
Place & SpeakersJudeo-Chinese is spoken by a population of around 72,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Judeo-Chinese
Currently being reformed.
Sample of Judeo-ChineseCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeChinese
⤷ Old Chinese
⤷ Middle Chinese
⤷ Yue
⤷ Mandarin
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Judeo-Chinese
⤷ Old Chinese
⤷ Middle Chinese
⤷ Yue
⤷ Mandarin
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Judeo-Chinese[view] About ChineseThe Sinitic languages,[2] often synonymous with the Chinese languages, are a language family frequently postulated as one of two primary branches of Sino-Tibetan.[3][4] The Bai languages may be Sinitic (classification is difficult);[5] otherwise Sini...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | pʰ | b | tʰ | d | kʰ | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | [v]1 | s | ʂ | ʐ | [ɕ]2 | x | [χ]3 | [h]4 | |||||||||||
| Affricate | p̪͡f | t͡sʰ | d͡z | ʈ͡ʂʰ | ɖ͡ʐ | [t͡ɕ]5 | [d͡ʑ]6 | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | [ʙ̥]7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]8 | |||||||||||||||||||
- allophone of /w/
- allophone of /s/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /x/
- allophone of /t͡sʰ/
- allophone of /d͡z/
- allophone of /p̪͡f/
- allophone of /ʐ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | (ɤ)1 | [o]2 | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Open | a | [ɑ]3 | ||||
- Loan words from Mandarin only
- allophone of /ɔ/
- allophone of /a/
Stress informationThere are four tones in Judeo-Chinese:
1. High Tone
2. Rising Tone
3. Falling Tone
4. Low Tone
Low tone only exists due to tone sandhi and other phonological changes, therefore technically, there's only three tones.
1. High Tone
2. Rising Tone
3. Falling Tone
4. Low Tone
Low tone only exists due to tone sandhi and other phonological changes, therefore technically, there's only three tones.
OtherErhua is present in Judeo-Chinese, as it is the way to form plurals and other grammatical stuff.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Judeo-Chinese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Judeo-ChineseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||||
| א/a/ | ב/b/ | ג/g/ | גנ/ŋ/ | ד/d/ | ו/ɔ/, /w/, /u/ | ז/d͡z/ | זש/ɖ͡ʐ/ | ח/x/ | י/ɛ/, /j/, /i/ | כ/kʰ/, /kʰ/ | ל/l/ |
| מ/m/ | נ/n/, /n/ | ס/s/ | ע/e/, /ɤ/1 | פ/f/ | פּ/pʰ/, /pʰ/ | צ/t͡sʰ/, /t͡sʰ/ | צש/ʈ͡ʂʰ/ | ר/ɨ/, /ʐ/ | ש/ʂ/ | ת/tʰ/ | ײ/y/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||||
- Loan words from Mandarin only, loan words only
