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*** Some analogical leveling happens, though, which collapses some occurrences to invariable /ē ā ō/
*** Some analogical leveling happens, though, which collapses some occurrences to invariable /ē ā ō/
** Ə - schwa archiphoneme, i between 2 nonemphatics
** Ə - schwa archiphoneme, i between 2 nonemphatics
* Some vestigial 2i3rāb (*-i for nouns but *-ə for verbs)


Corsican Arabic during or immediately after the period of Irish rule was markedly more grammatically conservative and more Irish-like than modern Corsican Arabic. Today's Corsican Arabic shows more English grammatical influence; for example it mainly uses a genitive preposition for possessive constructions (which should be different from Maltese ta'), whereas older texts prefer a head-marked construction which requires the possessum to be in the construct state or take a possessive suffix.
Corsican Arabic during or immediately after the period of Irish rule was markedly more grammatically conservative and more Irish-like than modern Corsican Arabic. Today's Corsican Arabic shows more English grammatical influence; for example it mainly uses a genitive preposition for possessive constructions (which should be different from Maltese ta'), whereas older texts prefer a head-marked construction which requires the possessum to be in the construct state or take a possessive suffix.