Hiberno-Japanese

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Irish-Japanese-Mandarin-Korean (mainly Irish and Sino-Jp) creole spoken in Irta Tricin's Cualand

Epenthetic vowels in words from Irish: broad consonants take -ə, slender consonants take -i

Phonology

a e i o u /a e i o ə~ɨ/

p t k b d g s š č j h m n r w y /pʰ t̪ʰ kʰ p~b t̪~d̪ k~g s ʃ~ɕ tʃʰ tʃ h m n ɾ~l w j/

Lexicon

  • unarigi = sea (Ir. an fharraige)
  • ishchi = water (Ir. uisce)
  • neun > nyōn = sky (Ir. neamh)