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'''Hiberno-Arabic''' (''MEER-iən'') is a heavily Hibernized variety of spoken historical Arabic native to the Crackfic Hmøøhian island nation of Midhir (natively ''el Miḋḋir'' [ə̟lˈmɪ̟jːɪ̟ɾ{{lam}}ʲ]; Irta Irish ''Tīrı vMīre'', after the Old Irish legendary figure Midir), an independent country where it's an official language alongside English. The native name for the language is ''el Miḋḋirìje'' or ''et teanga Miḋḋirìje'', but speakers may simply call the language ''teangatna'' [ˈt̪ʰæ̃ːʔʶʌt{{den}}ʶʰn{{den}}ʶʌ] 'our language'.

Hiberno-Arabic has ___ speakers in Midhir; smaller Hiberno-Arabic communities can be found in Irta Hmøøh's Cualand, Andaegor and Bjeheond as well as Irta Earth's Southeast Asia, the British Isles, Eastern Canada, and the West Coast of North America. Its speakers almost always also speak English; Irish and Nyvierfusiez are also widely understood in Midhir. Hiberno-Arabics predominantly belong to the Hiberno-Arabic Catholic Church; some are Remonitionists or Muslims. Education in Midhir is conducted in Hiberno-Arabic and English up to secondary school level, and higher education is taught in English.

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, [[Hyperfrench|Nyvierfusiez]] and English. Some Irish vocabulary in Hiberno-Arabic, called ''Nua-Ȝagmìje'' 'neo-<i>Ȝagmìje</i>', are in fact coinages by Hiberno-Arabics. It's the only Irtan Semitic language that evolved naturally under Celtic influence (Irta Modern Hebrew was revived partly by Celtic speakers and partly by Riphean speakers). Hiberno-Arabic is somewhat mutually intelligible with many Irta Neo-Arabic languages, and is even intelligible with Irish in some formal registers.

Midhir was ruled by Muslim Arabs since the 10th century. An Irish clan took control of the islands by the 11th century, and established an Irish-speaking kingdom which lasted until the 17th century when the Irta English Order of ___ took over. Midhir gained independence from the Irta English in 1940.  

Hiberno-Arabic is an isolate within Irtan 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:

One Englishism: ''mā́nduhš Gújjə xuG'' = 'he doesn't have a prayer for...' (This and "sad" comes from a Hiberno-Arabicism in Irta English which shows up in Pacific English and a few British dialects but not in Quelftonian English)

* Preuvular consonants are halfway between velar and uvular for most speakers but are velar or uvular for some speakers; the velar realization is more common for older speakers. /q/ in contemporary urban Hiberno-Arabic is turning into [ʔʶ] (cf. Maltese and Egyptian Arabic /ʔ/ for older Arabic ''q''), even affecting Irish loans: ''teanga'' 'language' and ''guid{{cda}}e'' 'prayer' are pronounced [ˈt̪ʰænʶʔʶʌ] and [ˈʔʶʊ{{ret}}jjə] by the majority of younger speakers. This is often attributed to immigration from other parts of Irta's Arab world bringing the glottal stop reflex of Arabic ''q''.

In Midhir, Hiberno-Arabic uses a Roman orthography which adopted changes to more faithfully reflect Arabic in the spelling of native vocabulary. Like many orthographies used in Irta, Hiberno-Arabic orthography is based on the principles of etymological spelling and enabling many-to-one reading, with the latter taking precedence. In Gaelic type for Hiberno-Arabic, the underline diacritic is rendered as slightly slanted horizontal strokes under the letter.