Verse:Mwtqwlqwj/Qwbmwdqwg: Difference between revisions

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 * Some vestigial 2i3rāb (*-i for nouns but *-Ø 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 the genitive preposition ''GaWW'' for possessive constructions, 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 (especially when created after the 17th century) are actually Corsican coinages.