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Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyya'' 'foreign' → 'Irish', maqām ʕaǧam 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 ([[Knench]] is more Azalic-influenced, and Irta Modern Hebrew was revived by Celtic speakers). Majorcan is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages.

The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic similarities between Irish and Arabic, including:

* vowel length, in a rough framework of 5 vowel qualities /a e i o u/

* lack or rarity of /p/ in native vocabulary

* intervocalic /h/ and clusters with /h/

* a kind of "broad/slender" distinction in consonants (emphatic/nonemphatic in Arabic, velarized/palatalized in Irish)

* vowel reduction and syncope in both Arabic dialects and Irish

* suffixes such as -án, -ín, -í

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Some vowel initial masculine nouns in Irish are borrowed with t-/T-

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 Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyya'' 'foreign' → 'Irish', maqām ʕaǧam 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 ([[Knench]] is more Azalic-influenced, and Irta Modern Hebrew was revived by Celtic speakers). Majorcan is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages.
+The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic similarities between Irish and Arabic, including:
+* vowel length, in a rough framework of 5 vowel qualities /a e i o u/
+* lack or rarity of /p/ in native vocabulary
+* intervocalic /h/ and clusters with /h/
+* a kind of "broad/slender" distinction in consonants (emphatic/nonemphatic in Arabic, velarized/palatalized in Irish)
+* vowel reduction and syncope in both Arabic dialects and Irish
+* suffixes such as -án, -ín, -í
 == todo ==
 Some vowel initial masculine nouns in Irish are borrowed with t-/T-