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The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | The main motivation for Majorcan is aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | ||
* 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 length | * vowel length | ||
* diphthongs /ej~aj/ and /ew~aw/ | * 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 | ||