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"Maltese but with Irish (and secondarily French) 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 (and secondarily French) 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 | VSO like Irish, has complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs: | ||
2 B b G g D d h w v Z z H T t y q k L l M m N n S s 3 F f R r Š š (Lith. broad and slender š) | |||
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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