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The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | 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/ | * vowel length, in a rough framework of 5 vowel qualities /a e i o u/ | ||
* lack or rarity of /p/ in native vocabulary | * lack or rarity of /p/ in native vocabulary | ||
* many fricative consonant phonemes | * many fricative consonant phonemes | ||
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* a kind of "broad/slender" distinction in consonants (emphatic/nonemphatic in Arabic, velarized/palatalized in Irish) | * 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 | * vowel reduction and syncope in both Arabic dialects and Irish | ||
* weight-sensitive stress in both Munster Irish and Arabic | |||
* suffixes such as -án, -ín, -í | * suffixes such as -án, -ín, -í | ||
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