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* ''ẓāʔ'' and ''ḍād'' are both [z{{phar}}~ð{{phar}}].
* ''ẓāʔ'' and ''ḍād'' are both [z{{phar}}~ð{{phar}}].
* ''jīm'' is [ɟ~g].
* ''jīm'' is [ɟ~g].
* has imāla after nonemphatics
* The vowel system ''i a u ī ē ā ū ay aw''
** new ā from 3ayn loss (same condition as Maltese stressed għa and agħ) causes old ā > ō after emphatics
** The combination of imāla and Irish borrowing has resulted in two archiphonemes: Ē (Classical ā), Ā (Middle Irish á) (ē and ā respectively after nonemphatics; both become ō after emphatics after ayin loss)
*** Some analogical leveling happens, though, which collapses some occurrences to invariable /ē ā ō/
** Ə - schwa archiphoneme, i between 2 nonemphatics
* C(+emph)C(-emph)C(+emph) root > C(+emph)C(+emph)C(+emph) root
* C(+emph)C(-emph)C(+emph) root > C(+emph)C(+emph)C(+emph) root