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The Irish vocabulary in Hiberno-Arabic reflects a fictional Middle Irish dialect which shows features of modern Munster Irish and our timeline's Scottish Gaelic; it was conservative in that broad dh (> Hiberno-Arabic /zʶ/) was kept distinct from broad gh (> Hiberno-Arabic /ʁ/). Broad coronals were strongly velarized, and /a:/ was backed to [ɑ:] after broad consonants, explaining why Irish broad ''s d g'' were heard as /sˁ tˁ⁼ q⁼/ by the Arabic speakers. | The Irish vocabulary in Hiberno-Arabic reflects a fictional Middle Irish dialect which shows features of modern Munster Irish and our timeline's Scottish Gaelic; it was conservative in that broad dh (> Hiberno-Arabic /zʶ/) was kept distinct from broad gh (> Hiberno-Arabic /ʁ/). Broad coronals were strongly velarized, and /a:/ was backed to [ɑ:] after broad consonants, explaining why Irish broad ''s d g'' were heard as /sˁ tˁ⁼ q⁼/ by the Arabic speakers. | ||
The first surviving text in Hiberno-Arabic is dated to | The first surviving text in Hiberno-Arabic is dated to 1215. | ||
Hiberno-Arabic is an isolate within Dynjan Arabic; it evolved from [[Hiberno-Arabic/Proto|Proto-Hiberno-Arabic]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features: | Hiberno-Arabic is an isolate within Dynjan Arabic; it evolved from [[Hiberno-Arabic/Proto|Proto-Hiberno-Arabic]], a fictional vernacular Arabic variety similar to our old Maghrebi Arabic which had the following features: |
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