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The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet | The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet | ||
"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian" --- the only Irtan Semlang that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Crannish doesn't really count) | "Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian" --- the only Irtan Semlang that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Crannish doesn't really count), and the only non-Crannish Semitic language written in Latin script | ||
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 | 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 | ||
Revision as of 16:52, 6 February 2022
The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet
"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian" --- the only Irtan Semlang that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Crannish doesn't really count), and the only non-Crannish Semitic language written in Latin script
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