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The Irish-influenced Arabic variety spoken in the Canary Islands; written in the Latin alphabet

"Maltese but with Irish instead of Italian" --- the only Irtan Semlang that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Crannish doesn't really count)

VSO like Irish, has complete set of emphatic-nonemphatic pairs; has a similar vowel inventory to Irish, with short /u/ (retained from Classical Arabic) realized as [ø~y] after nonemphatic consonants