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"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian"
"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian"


VSO like Irish, has complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs; has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ realized as [ø~y] after slender consonants
VSO like Irish, has complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs; has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [ø~y] after nonemphatic consonants

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The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet

"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian"

VSO like Irish, has complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs; has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [ø~y] after nonemphatic consonants