Verse:Mwtqwlqwj/Qwbmwdqwg: Difference between revisions

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The first surviving text in Majorcan is dated to 1515.

Majorcan evolved from [[Majorcan/Proto|Proto-Majorcan]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features:

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

* ''qāf'' and ''ṭāʔ'' are unaspirated, sometimes voiced.

* ''þāʔ'' and ''{{đ}}āl'' are retained.

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* Some vestigial 2i3rāb (*-i for nouns but *-Ø for verbs)

* C(+emph)C(-emph)C(+emph) root > C(+emph)C(+emph)C(+emph) root

Majorcan during or immediately after the period of Irish rule was markedly more grammatically conservative and more Irish-like than modern Majorcan. Today's Majorcan 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 Majorcan (especially when created after the 17th century) are actually Majorcan coinages.~~

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

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 The first surviving text in Majorcan is dated to 1515.
-Majorcan evolved from [[Majorcan/Proto|Proto-Majorcan]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features:
+Majorcan is an isolate within Irtan Arabic; it evolved from [[Majorcan/Proto|Proto-Majorcan]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features:
 * ''qāf'' and ''ṭāʔ'' are unaspirated, sometimes voiced.
 * ''þāʔ'' and ''{{đ}}āl'' are retained.
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 * Some vestigial 2i3rāb (*-i for nouns but *-Ø for verbs)
 * C(+emph)C(-emph)C(+emph) root > C(+emph)C(+emph)C(+emph) root
-Majorcan during or immediately after the period of Irish rule was markedly more grammatically conservative and more Irish-like than modern Majorcan. Today's Majorcan 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 Majorcan (especially when created after the 17th century) are actually Majorcan coinages.
 One Englishism: ''mā́nduhš Gújjə xuG'' = 'he doesn't have a prayer for...' (This and "sad" comes from a Majorcanism in Irta English which shows up in Pacific English and a few British dialects but not in Quelftonian English)