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has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [ø~y] after nonemphatic consonants | has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [ø~y] after nonemphatic consonants | ||
a | a i u á é ý/í ó ú əj əw iə uə | ||
Revision as of 17:05, 6 February 2022
The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in our Basque Country; written in the Latin alphabet. Its speakers are predominantly Catholic.
"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:
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
a i u á é ý/í ó ú əj əw iə uə