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| '''Al-Ȝarebydda''' is an alternative history descendant of Classical Arabic inspired by Welsh and Praimhín's Vrushka; it is intended to be a Welshy counterpart to our Arabic which is more Irishy (Irish has lots of a, á, í, ú; velarization; some suffixes like -án, -ún, -ín, -ú, -(a)í, -t(e)á, -anna, ...)
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| ==Diachronics==
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| Conditioning factors: before or after emphatic consonants, stress
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| Umlaut (before non-emphatic consonants)
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| *a-umlaut: a i u aa ii uu ay aw > /a e o a: e: o: ai au/
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| *i-umlaut: a i u aa ii uu ay aw > /ɛ i ü e: i: ü: ɛi aü/ (a: > e: already by imāla)
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| *u-umlaut: a i u aa ii uu ay aw > /œ ü u œ: ü: u: ɔi ɛu/
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| Loss of vowel length after umlaut; loss of geminates
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| alif > 0
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| yā' > /ð/ ''ddai''
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| ḍād > /ɬ/ ''llawd''
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| sīn, shīn, ṣād > /s ʃ ɧ/ ''sin, šin, sjawd''
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| ṭā' > /p/ ex. ''ṭayyib'' > ''peddyb'' /pɛðəb/ 'good'
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| tā' > /t/
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| ẓā' > /ð/, /v/, /ɣ/ (randomly) ex. ''ghebi'' /ɣɛbi/ 'gazelle'; ''fuhr'' /vyhər/ 'noon'
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| qāf > /k/ ''c'', kāf > /tʃ/ ''č''
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| jīm > /g/
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| fā > /v/
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Consonants===
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| {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;"
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| !colspan="2"| !! Labial !! Dental/Alveolar !! Medial !! Palatal !! Velar !! Radical!! Glottal
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| !colspan="2"|Nasal
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| | '''m''' /m/
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| | '''n''' /n/
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| !rowspan="2"|Plosive
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| !<small>plain</small>
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| | '''p''' /pʰ/
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| | '''t''' /tʰ/
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| | '''ĉ''' /tʃ/
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| | '''c''' /kʰ/ ||
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| | '''ʔ''' /ʔ/
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| !<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''b''' /b/
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| | '''d''' /d/
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| | '''g''' /g/ ||
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| !rowspan="2"|Non-sibilant
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| !<small>unvoiced</small>
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| | '''th''' /θ/
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| | '''ch''' /χ/ || '''ħ''' /ħ/ || '''h''' /h/
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| !<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''f''' /v/
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| | '''dd''' /ð/
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| | '''gh''' /ʁ/ || '''ȝ''' /ʕ/ ||
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| !rowspan="2"|Sibilant
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| !<small>unvoiced</small>
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| | '''s''' /s/
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| | '''sj''' /ɧ/
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| | '''ŝ''' /ʃ/ || ||
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| !<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''z''' /z/ || || || || ||
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| !rowspan="2"| Lateral
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| !<small>unvoiced</small>
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| | '''ll''' /ɬ/
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| !<small>voiced</small>
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| | '''l''' /l/ || ||
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| !colspan="2"| Trill
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| | '''r''' /r/ || ||
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| ===Vowels===
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| '''a e i o w y ø u''' /a ɛ i ɔ u ə œ y/ + lots of diphthongs
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| ===Stress===
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| Always penultimate
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| ==Morphology==
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| Conservative declension, analytic verbs
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| ===Nouns and adjectives===
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| |+ Masculine noun (soft stem)
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| !| !! Singular !! Dual !! Plural
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| !|Nominative
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| |''baet''||''baetae''||''baetw''
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| !|Accusative
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| |''baet''||''baetei''||''baeti''
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| !|{{abbtip|of a house|Genitive}}
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| |''beit''||''baetei''||''baeti''
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| 'goodness':
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| *sg. ''choer, chaer, cheir''
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| *pl. ''chyddoer'', ''chyddaer'', ''chyddeir'' (broken plural, triptote)
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| try to save as much declension as possible
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| '''-a''' (nom), '''-a''' (acc), '''-e''' (gen) (feminine sg.)
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| '''-o/-ae''' (nom), '''-ei''' (acc, gen) (m. dual)
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| '''-tae''' (nom), '''-tei''' (acc, gen) (f. dual)
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| '''-w''' (nom), '''-i''' (acc, gen) (masculine plural)
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| '''-ot/-aet''' (nom), '''-eit''' (acc, gen) (feminine plural)
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| ''ʔaxḍar, xaḍrā, xuḍr'' is regularized to ''ʔachllar, ʔachllara, ʔachllaro, ʔachllartae, ʔachllarw, ʔachllarot'' 'green'
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| broken plurals - ?
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| ===Verbs===
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| [[Category:Semitic languages]]
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