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|  || a ||  || {{IPA|/a/}} || lawšā<!--*lewH---> || Literally "opening".

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|  || ā || aa; â || {{IPA|/aː/}} || ’alpā ṭalgā || Literally "long ’alpā".

| || â || aa; ā || {{IPA|/aː/}} || lawšā ṭalgā || Literally "long opening". <br />Used in a few words.

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|  || ī || ii; ee; iy; î || {{IPA|/iː/}} || yāḏā ṭalgā || Literally "long yāḏā".

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|  || ū || uu; oo; uw; û || {{IPA|/uː/}} || wawwā ṭalgā || Literally "long wawwā".

| || C || || C || kīlā || Literally "resting". <br />Used to indicate that a consonant is not followed by a vowel.

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===Prosody===

====Stress====

In traditional poetry, usual word stress is forgone and instead is determined by meter.

*CV̄CC (word-finally only, rare)

Note that in traditional poetry, word-final CV̆C and CV̄ syllables are treated as heavy, and only CV̆ syllables are considered light regardless of position.

Nouns do not decline for case.

There are two genders: masculine and feminine.The feminine is most often marked with the ending ''-ā''<!-- (which becomes ''-at'' in the construct case)-->.

Adjectives agree with the noun they modify in gender and definiteness.

There is no indefinite article.

====Adverbs====

====Numerals====

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! masc. !! fem.

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! 0

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! 1

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! 2

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! 3

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! 4

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! 5

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! 6

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! 7

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! 8

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! 9

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! 10

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! 11

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! 12

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! 13

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! 14

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! 20

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! 21

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! 30

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! 40

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! 100

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! 200

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! 1000

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! 2000

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===Verbs===

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! 2 !! Triliteral root verb

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! 3 !! Quadriliteral root verbs

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<small>¹</small> The prefix vowel is changed to ''-u-'' instead of ''-a-'' in Arabic-style passives.

====Passive====

| Reciprocal or reflexive of above || تفاعل

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! 6 !! Causative

| 1a2-dā/ḏā- || -1i2-dā/ḏā- || 1a2a3-dā/ḏā- || -12i3-dā/ḏā- || 1a23a4-dā/ḏā- || -1a23i4-dā/ḏā- || Causative || أفعل

! 7 !! Middle causative

| ha-1a2-dā/ḏā- || -ha-1i2-dā/ḏā- || ha-1a2a3-dā/ḏā- || -ha-12i3-dā/ḏā- || ha-1a23a4-dā/ḏā- || -ha-1a23i4-dā/ḏā- || Middle, autobenefactive, reflexive, or anticausative of above; requestative || (استفعل)

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====Suffixed verbs====

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! 2 !! Intensive

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! 3 !! Middle intensive

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! 4 !! Associative

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! 5 !! Reciprocal

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! 6 !! Causative

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'''Notes:'''

====Borrowed verbs====

Verbs borrowed from Arabic generally conjugate as root verbs keeping their Arabic perfect and imperfect stems (as they occur in the 3rd person masculine singular). However, causative verbs (i.e. those with the form أفعل) keep their initial glottal stop in the imperfect stem and therefore conjugate identically to quadriliteral verbs. Verbs whose perfect stems begin in a ''-w-'' that is dropped in the Arabic also do not drop it in Zanahi.

These Arabic-derived verbs have alternative formations of the passive<!-- and participles-->: in addition to the regular formations, they can also be formed in the Arabic way. This means that the passive stems are taken from the 3rd person masculine singular, and the prefix vowel is also changed to ''-u-'' (instead of the regular ''-a-'' which always occurs in the active). Like in the active, the stem-initial glottal stop in أفعل verbs is maintained.

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Verbs borrowed from Semitic languages besides Arabic are usually early borrowings that have been fully nativized. This means that they decline identically to native Zanahi verbs.

===Particles===

====Prefixed particles====

**Becomes ''ṯa-'' when used possessively and immediately preceded by the vowel-final possessed noun.

*''wa-'': "and"

====Independent particles====

*''’aw'': "or"

==Syntax==

===Constituent order===

===Noun phrase===

===Verb phrase===

===Sentence phrase===

==Dialectal features==

===Phonology===

===Morphology===

===Syntax===

==Example texts==

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===Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1)===

====Standard Zanahi====

'''Native script approximated with Syriac letters and Arabic diacritics:'''

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'''Gloss:''' all of-the-people they_are_born free_PL and equal_PL in the-dignity and the-rights. Allah gave-them reason and conscience, and it_is_obligatory on-them that-they_mutually_act_with_each_other in-the-spirit of-the-brotherhood.

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====Arabized Zanahi====

==Other resources==