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'''Proto-Majorcan Arabic''' is the variety of vernacular Arabic that eventually became Majorcan, specifically the stage before it started absorbing Irish influence.
A "dual-accent" English giblang
 
(does van Putten's book have any leads on Neo-Arabic?)
 
Ultrashort yers? ŭ ĭ, with latter only allowed after nonemphatics
 
== Phonological history of vowels ==
a i u ā ē ī ū
=== Stressed low vowels ===
=== Stressed high vowels ===
=== Unstressed vowels ===
=== Final vowels ===
-ah, -ā, -ē, -ā2 > -ə
 
== Phonological history of consonants ==
=== R vs. r ===
Vestigial 2i3rāb in an earlier stage gave rise to a phonemic split between R and r; final -r became nonemphatic in nouns and adjectives (from -ri) but -R in verbs (from -ru and -ra) and later in verbal nouns by analogy.
 
=== Emphasis spread ===
Sketch of emphasis spread rules:
# T D S Z q x γ are ''emphasis sources''
# In a cluster, emphasis sources spread emphasis onto consonants that are not marked for emphasis (nonemphatic consonants that are not š y j d s z)
# The vowel before the cluster in the emphasis source is affected
# Consonants that are inherently -emphasis (š y j d s z), and the stressed vowel, ''absorb emphasis'' and emphasis (usually) can't spread past them
# If the onset of the stressed syllable is emphatic, inflectional prefixes become emphatic
# If the coda of the stressed syllable is emphatic, then the emphasis spreads all the way to the end of the word
# If the outer consonants of a consonantal root are emphatic then the middle consonant(s) become emphatic
 
Some kind of metrical foot-based emphasis spread system?
 
dr DR yes, Dr no, dR not sure
 
rd RD yes, rD Rd no
 
== Morphology ==
Hollow root ʔimālah depends on whether it's 2-y or 2-w:
* ''*zēd'' 'he increased', ''*māt'' 'he died'
 
== Syntax ==
Proto-Majorcan Arabic had the emphatic "ADJ el-NOUN" construction (from earlier "STATIVE_VERB al-NOUN"), which got reinterpreted as 'an ADJ NOUN' under Irish influence: "In Classical Arabic syncopated forms do not usually occur, the only place where they occur is when the verbs naʕima ‘he is glad’ and baʔisa ‘he is miserable’ are employed as pseudo-verbs of emphatic qualification, such as niʕma r-raǧulu ‘what a wonderful man!’ and biʔsa n-nisāʔu ‘what evil women!’ (Fischer 2002, §259–263)." (van Putten)

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A "dual-accent" English giblang

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