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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. | ||
Some Irish vocabulary in Corsican Arabic are actually Corsican coinages. | Some Irish vocabulary in Corsican Arabic (especially when created after the 17th century) are actually Corsican coinages. | ||
== Figures == | == Figures == | ||