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Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyya'' 'foreign' → 'Irish', Maqam Ajam in Irta also comes from Irish music), comprise over half of Majorcan vocabulary. Besides Irish, Majorcan has borrowed from French, [[Hyperfrench|Nyvierfusiez]] and English. Some Irish vocabulary in Majorcan, called ''Nùa-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by Majorcans. It's the only Irtan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Irta Modern Hebrew was revived by Celtic speakers). Majorcan is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages, and is even intelligible with Irish and [[Ăn Yidiș]] in some formal registers. | Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyya'' 'foreign' → 'Irish', Maqam Ajam in Irta also comes from Irish music), comprise over half of Majorcan vocabulary. Besides Irish, Majorcan has borrowed from French, [[Hyperfrench|Nyvierfusiez]] and English. Some Irish vocabulary in Majorcan, called ''Nùa-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by Majorcans. It's the only Irtan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Irta Modern Hebrew was revived by Celtic speakers). Majorcan is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages, and is even intelligible with Irish and [[Ăn Yidiș]] in some formal registers. | ||
The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | ||
* vowel length, in a rough framework of 5 vowel qualities /a e i o u/ | * vowel length, in a rough framework of 5 vowel qualities /a e i o u/ | ||
* Diphthongs /ej~aj/ and /ew~aw/ | * Diphthongs /ej~aj/ and /ew~aw/ | ||
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* weight-sensitive stress in both Munster Irish and Arabic | * weight-sensitive stress in both Munster Irish and Arabic | ||
* suffixes such as /-a:n/, /-i:n/, /-i:/ | * suffixes such as /-a:n/, /-i:n/, /-i:/ | ||
* VSO word order | |||
* Adjective plural is /-ə/ in Irish, inanimate adjective plural is ''-ah'' in Arabic | |||
== todo == | == todo == | ||