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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) | |||
* 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/ | * diphthongs /ej~aj/ and /ew~aw/ | ||
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* many fricative consonant phonemes, including back fricatives /x {{gh}} h/ | * many fricative consonant phonemes, including back fricatives /x {{gh}} h/ | ||
* intervocalic /h/ and clusters with /h/ | * intervocalic /h/ and clusters with /h/ | ||
* vowel reduction and syncope in both Maghrebi Arabic and Irish | * vowel reduction and syncope in both Maghrebi Arabic and Irish | ||
* weight-sensitive stress in both Munster Irish and Arabic | * weight-sensitive stress in both Munster Irish and Arabic | ||