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The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet. Its speakers are predominantly Catholic.
The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in our Catalonia or Basque Country; written in the Latin alphabet. Its speakers are predominantly Catholic.


"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 Irtan Semitic language written in the Latin script
"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 Irtan Semitic language written in the 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 16:56, 6 February 2022

The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in our Catalonia or Basque Country; written in the Latin alphabet. Its speakers are predominantly Catholic.

"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 Irtan Semitic language written in the 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