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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: | ||
* 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, including back fricatives /x {{gh}} h/ | * many fricative consonant phonemes, including back fricatives /x {{gh}} h/ | ||
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* suffixes such as /-a:n/, /-i:n/, /-i:/ | * suffixes such as /-a:n/, /-i:n/, /-i:/ | ||
* VSO word order | * VSO word order | ||
* | * adjective plural is /-ə/ in Irish, inanimate adjective plural is ''-ah'' in Arabic | ||
== todo == | == todo == | ||