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Similar to our pre-reform Irish orthography, with lenition dots, and grave instead of acute | Similar to our pre-reform Irish orthography, with lenition dots, and grave instead of acute | ||
Irish loans that are inflected using Semitic morphology such as broken plurals are spelled as if native. | Irish loans that are inflected using Semitic morphology such as broken plurals are spelled as if native. However, the native plural endings /-e:h/ and /-a:h/ are spelled ''-èṫ'' and ''-àṫ''. | ||
Consonants in Irish loans generally have the same value as in "carefully-read Irish", i.e. with no vowel contractions from V[semivowel]V. The values are the closest Majorcan equivalents to the Irish consonants, with broad and slender becoming emphatic and nonemphatic, except: | Consonants in Irish loans generally have the same value as in "carefully-read Irish", i.e. with no vowel contractions from V[semivowel]V. The values are the closest Majorcan equivalents to the Irish consonants, with broad and slender becoming emphatic and nonemphatic, except: | ||