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'''Hiberno-Arabic''' or '''Albionian''', natively ''el Albanaìje'', is a heavily Hibernized variety of spoken historical Arabic native to and official in the Dynjan island nation of Albion (''el Alba'', in our timeline's Great Britain). Speakers may simply call the language ''teangatna'' [ˈt̪ʰʲæ̃ːʔˠʌt{{den}}ˠʰn{{den}}ˠʌ] 'our language'. The Dynjan British are mainly irreligious, though historically they were Muslims who converted to Catholicism. | '''Hiberno-Arabic''' or '''Albionian''', natively ''el Albanaìje'', is a heavily Hibernized variety of spoken historical Arabic native to and official in the Dynjan island nation of Albion (''el Alba'', in our timeline's Great Britain). Speakers may simply call the language ''teangatna'' [ˈt̪ʰʲæ̃ːʔˠʌt{{den}}ˠʰn{{den}}ˠʌ] 'our language'. The Dynjan British are mainly irreligious, though historically they were Muslims who converted to Catholicism. | ||
Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyyah'' 'foreign' → 'Irish'), comprise over half of Hiberno-Arabic vocabulary. Besides Irish, Hiberno-Arabic has borrowed from French | Irish loanwords, called ''clèm Ȝagmìje'' (from Arabic ''{{ayin}}aǧamiyyah'' 'foreign' → 'Irish'), comprise over half of Hiberno-Arabic vocabulary. Besides Irish, Hiberno-Arabic has borrowed from French. Some Irish vocabulary in Hiberno-Arabic, called ''Nua-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by speakers of Hiberno-Arabic. It is the only Dynjan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence. Due to its conservatism, Hiberno-Arabic is also mutually intelligible with many Dynjan Neo-Arabic languages. | ||
The main motivation for Hiberno-Arabic are aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | The main motivation for Hiberno-Arabic are aesthetic and grammatical similarities between Irish and Arabic, including: | ||