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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/ | ||
* Diphthongs /ej~aj/ and /ew~aw/ | |||
* lack (Arabic) or rarity (Irish) of /p/ in native vocabulary | * lack (Arabic) or rarity (Irish) of /p/ in native vocabulary | ||
* many fricative consonant phonemes | * many fricative consonant phonemes |
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