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'''Hiberno-Arabic''', natively ''el Ḃreatainìje'' [əl vʲɾʲə{{adv}}tʰˠʌˈnʲiːjə], is a heavily Hibernized variety of spoken historical Arabic native to and official in the Dinjan island nation of el Ḃreatain. Speakers may simply call the language ''teangatna'' [ˈt̪ʰæ̃ːʔˠʌt{{den}}ˠʰn{{den}}ˠʌ] 'our language'.

Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyyah'' 'foreign' → 'Irish'), comprise over half of Hiberno-Arabic vocabulary. Besides Irish, Hiberno-Arabic has borrowed from French. Some Irish vocabulary in Hiberno-Arabic, called ''Nua-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by Hiberno-Arabics. It is the only Dinjan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence. Hiberno-Arabic is also mutually intelligible with many Dinjan Neo-Arabic languages.

Midhir was ruled by Muslim Arabs since the 10th century. An Irish clan took control of the islands by the 11th century, and established an Irish-speaking kingdom which lasted until the 17th century when the Dinje English Order of ___ took over. Midhir gained independence from the Dinje English in 1940.  

Hiberno-Arabic is an isolate within Dinjan Arabic; it evolved from [[Hiberno-Arabic/Proto|Proto-Hiberno-Arabic]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features:

One Englishism: ''mā́nduhš Gújjə xuG'' = 'he doesn't have a prayer for...' (This and "sad" comes from a Hiberno-Arabicism in Dinje English which shows up in Pacific English and a few British dialects but not in Quelftonian English)

* Preuvular consonants are halfway between velar and uvular for most speakers but are velar or uvular for some speakers; the velar realization is more common for older speakers. /q/ in contemporary urban Hiberno-Arabic is turning into [ʔʶ] (cf. Maltese and Egyptian Arabic /ʔ/ for older Arabic ''q''), even affecting Irish loans: ''teanga'' 'language' and ''guid{{cda}}e'' 'prayer' are pronounced [ˈt̪ʰænʶʔʶʌ] and [ˈʔʶʊ{{ret}}jjə] by the majority of younger speakers. This is often attributed to immigration from other parts of ed Dinje's Arab world bringing the glottal stop reflex of Arabic ''q''.

In Midhir, Hiberno-Arabic uses a Roman orthography which adopted changes to more faithfully reflect Arabic in the spelling of native vocabulary. Like many orthographies used in ed Dinje, Hiberno-Arabic orthography is based on the principles of etymological spelling and enabling many-to-one reading, with the latter taking precedence. In Gaelic type for Hiberno-Arabic, the underline diacritic is rendered as slightly slanted horizontal strokes under the letter.