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Irish loans that are inflected using Semitic morphology such as broken plurals are spelled as if native. | Irish loans that are inflected using Semitic morphology such as broken plurals are spelled as if native. | ||
Consonants in Irish loans generally have the same value as in "carefully-read Irish", i.e. with no vowel contractions from | Consonants in Irish loans generally have the same value as in "carefully-read Irish", i.e. with no vowel contractions from V[semivowel]V. The values are the closest Majorcan equivalents to the Irish consonants, with broad and slender becoming emphatic and nonemphatic, except: | ||
* broad ''d{{cda}}'' = /z{{uvu}}/ | * broad ''d{{cda}}'' = /z{{uvu}}/ | ||
* ''nn ll rr'' actually are geminates. Word-finally they compensatorily lengthen the preceding vowel, just as native word-final geminates do. | * ''nn ll rr'' actually are geminates. Word-finally they compensatorily lengthen the preceding vowel, just as native word-final geminates do. | ||