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has an almost complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs: | has an almost complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs: | ||
B '''b''' '''G''' '''g''' '''D''' '''d''' '''h''' W '''w''' '''Z''' '''z''' '''T''' '''t''' '''GH''' '''y''' K '''k''' '''X''' x L '''l''' M '''m''' N '''n''' '''S''' '''s''' F '''f''' P p '''R''' '''š''' ( | B '''b''' '''G''' '''g''' '''D''' '''d''' '''h''' W '''w''' '''Z''' '''z''' '''T''' '''t''' '''GH''' '''y''' K '''k''' '''X''' x L '''l''' M '''m''' N '''n''' '''S''' '''s''' F '''f''' P p '''R''' '''š''' (bold = inherited) | ||
Clusters may not follow bwb sws in native words. Irish broad and slender consonants are borrowed as emphatic and nonemphatic consonants, respectively | Clusters may not follow bwb sws in native words. Irish broad and slender consonants are borrowed as emphatic and nonemphatic consonants, respectively. | ||
has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [y] after nonemphatic consonants and with more vowels from lost ayin | has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [y] after nonemphatic consonants and with more vowels from lost ayin | ||
Revision as of 06:27, 8 February 2022
The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in our Basque Country; written in the Latin alphabet. Its speakers are predominantly Catholic.
"Maltese but with Irish (and secondarily French) instead of Italian" --- the only Irtan Semlang that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Crannish doesn't really count), and the only Irtan Semitic language written in the Latin script
Phonology
has an almost complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs:
B b G g D d h W w Z z T t GH y K k X x L l M m N n S s F f P p R š (bold = inherited)
Clusters may not follow bwb sws in native words. Irish broad and slender consonants are borrowed as emphatic and nonemphatic consonants, respectively.
has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [y] after nonemphatic consonants and with more vowels from lost ayin
a i u á é ý/í ó ú əj əw aj aw ea oa ia ua
Morphology
should extract consonantal roots from Irish words
Syntax
Irish relex; VSO and verbnouns whose poessessors are direct objects