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'''Midhirian''' (''MEER-iən'') is a heavily Hibernized variety of spoken historical Arabic native to the Crackfic Hmøøhian island nation of Midhir (natively ''el Miḋḋir'' [ə̟lˈmɪ̟jːɪ̟ɾ{{lam}}ʲ]; Irta Irish ''Tīrı vMīre'', after the Old Irish legendary figure Midir), an independent country where it's an official language alongside English. The native name for the language is ''el Miḋḋirìje'' or ''et teanga Miḋḋirìje'', but speakers may simply call the language ''teangatna'' [ˈt̪ʰæ̃ːʔʶʌt{{den}}ʶʰn{{den}}ʶʌ] 'our language'.

Midhirian has ___ speakers in Midhir; smaller Midhirian communities can be found in Irta Hmøøh's Cualand, Andaegor and Bjeheond as well as Irta Earth's Southeast Asia, the British Isles, Eastern Canada, and the West Coast of North America. Its speakers almost always also speak English; Irish and Nyvierfusiez are also widely understood in Midhir. Midhirians predominantly belong to the Midhirian Catholic Church; some are Remonitionists or Muslims. Education in Midhir is conducted in Midhirian and English up to secondary school level, and higher education is taught in English.

Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyyah'' 'foreign' → 'Irish'), comprise over half of Midhirian vocabulary. Besides Irish, Midhirian has borrowed from French, [[Hyperfrench|Nyvierfusiez]] and English. Some Irish vocabulary in Midhirian, called ''Nua-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by Midhirians. It's the only Irtan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Irta Modern Hebrew was revived partly by Celtic speakers and partly by Riphean speakers). Midhirian is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages, and is even intelligible with Irish in some formal registers.

The main motivation for Midhirian is aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including:

False friends between Midhirian and Irish

Midhirian immigrants moved to Cambodia and parts of Thailand as well as parts of North America (e.g. Kansas and Oklahoma).

The Irish vocabulary in Midhirian reflects a fictional Middle Irish dialect which shows features of modern Munster Irish and our timeline's Scottish Gaelic; it was conservative in that broad dh (> Midhirian /zʶ/) was kept distinct from broad gh (> Midhirian /ʁ/). Broad coronals were strongly velarized, and /a:/ was backed to [ɑ:] after broad consonants, explaining why Irish broad ''s d g'' were heard as /sˁ tˁ⁼ q⁼/ by the Arabic speakers.

The first surviving text in Midhirian is dated to 1515.

Midhirian is an isolate within Irtan Arabic; it evolved from [[Midhirian/Proto|Proto-Midhirian]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features:

One Englishism: ''mā́nduhš Gújjə xuG'' = 'he doesn't have a prayer for...' (This and "sad" comes from a Midhirianism in Irta English which shows up in Pacific English and a few British dialects but not in Quelftonian English)

* Doonancole (''Dùn{{cll}} an Ċoill'', Ir. 'fort of the hazel') is a major city; an inhabitant of Dùn an Ċoill is called a ''Dùnaì'' in Midhirian.

** Bejza is a Midhirian town

Midhirian has an almost complete set of pairs of emphatic (''leat{{cda}}an{{cll}}'' ['læ{{heth}}{{lowered}}ən{{den}}{{uvu}}], Ir. 'broad') and nonemphatic (''caol{{cll}}'' [q&#799;{{asp}}ɪ:l{{den}}{{uvu}}], Ir. 'slender') consonants, formed from both native emphatic consonants (Classical Arabic T D S Z q became /t{{uvu}} z{{uvu}} s{{uvu}} z{{uvu}} q/) and the contrast between broad (velarized) and slender (palatalized) consonants in borrowed Irish vocabulary. Irish broad and slender consonants are usually borrowed as emphatic and nonemphatic consonants, respectively. For referring to Midhirian we will use emphatic and broad, and nonemphatic and slender, as synonyms, as well as terms like "broadness spreading" and "slenderization".

Arabic /θ/ and /ð/ become Midhirian /t{{=}}/ and /z/.

|+Consonant phonemes in Midhirian

* Preuvular consonants are halfway between velar and uvular for most speakers but are velar or uvular for some speakers; the velar realization is more common for older speakers. /q/ in contemporary urban Midhirian is turning into [ʔʶ] (cf. Maltese and Egyptian Arabic /ʔ/ for older Arabic ''q''), even affecting Irish loans: ''teanga'' 'language' and ''guid{{cda}}e'' 'prayer' are pronounced [ˈt̪ʰænʶʔʶʌ] and [ˈʔʶʊ{{ret}}jjə] by the majority of younger speakers. This is often attributed to immigration from other parts of Irta's Arab world bringing the glottal stop reflex of Arabic ''q''.

Midhirian is usually analyzed as having 5 short monophthongs, 5 long monophthongs, and 4 diphthongs (not counting vowel + semivowel sequences) in stressed syllables. Some non-exhaustive common spellings for the vowels are given. Sometimes [æ] and [ɑ] (and their long counterparts) are analyzed as distinct phonemes, however this distinction is marginal.

In Midhir, Midhirian uses a Roman orthography which adopted changes to more faithfully reflect Arabic in the spelling of native vocabulary. Like many orthographies used in Irta, Midhirian orthography is based on the principles of etymological spelling and enabling many-to-one reading, with the latter taking precedence. In Gaelic type for Midhirian, the underline diacritic is rendered as slightly slanted horizontal strokes under the letter.  

Midhirians handwrite lowercase i and j without dots.

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 Midhirian equivalents to the Irish consonants, with broad and slender becoming emphatic and nonemphatic, except:

Sufi and Hmøøhian Midhirians use an adapted Arabic script devised by the Midhirian Sufi writer ___. The orthography uses invented letters and vowel diacritics made from Latin shapes (especially from Gaelic type) and Ogham for Midhirian consonants and vowels that don't exist in Arabic.

In post-independence Midhirian, the construction ''el{{cll}}-guiḋe gur{{cll}}i'' is more common.

The following words demonstrate the Midhirian sun letters (''consain semsìje''):

The following heuristics are useful for guessing the gender of Midhirian ''inanimate'' nouns of Irish origin:

A Midhirian regular verb has five principal parts:

Irish influence preserved or revived many conservative Semitic features of Midhirian syntax:

* (!) Stative verbs are different from Irish: tá mé i mo chodladh = nearg{{cll}}ad (stative verbs use the future tense in Midhirian)

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