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~~In Irta,~~ Japanese borrows mainly from Perso-Arabic and replaces some existing Chinese vocabulary during the period corresponding to our timeline's Late Middle Japanese period. Japanese is spoken in Irta's Japan, Sakhalin, Mongolia and parts of Canada. It's notable for having lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords, in addition to earlier Sino-Japanese (Go-on and Kan-on) vocabulary.

This form of Japanese borrows mainly from Perso-Arabic and replaces some existing Chinese vocabulary during the period corresponding to our timeline's Late Middle Japanese period. Japanese is spoken in Irta's Japan, Sakhalin, Mongolia and parts of Canada. It's notable for having lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords, in addition to earlier Sino-Japanese (Go-on and Kan-on) vocabulary.

==Todo==

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Some unexpected Sino-Japanese words where OTL Japanese would use a native or English word

~~R/L in Arabic and Persian borrowed the way Japanese borrows them in English instead of simply merging them?~~

~~Written in Perso-Arabic script~~

~~Middle Japanese + Arabic/Persian + subsequent sound changes~~

jigā = liver, seat of emotions (like "heart" in English), (''poetic'') other/second

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==Personal names==

===Persian origin===

Hēdoushi, Rusutan, Sōrābu, ~~Hereidūn~~, Janshīzu, Kaifusurou, Manūchē, Mērān, Shiamaku, Shiyawashi

Hēdoushi, Rusutan, Sōrābu, Hereizūn, Janshīzu, Kaifusurou, Manūchē, Mērān, Shiamaku, Shiyawashi

==Orthography==

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written in Hebrew script and has a Hebrew lexical layer

Vowel devoicing actually drops vowels

Vowel devoicing actually drops vowels in native words

Fewer phonotactic restrictions (e.g. final consonants are allowed); separate /l/ is introduced as well as emphatics, e.g. /ts/ undergoes a phonemic split from /t/

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-In Irta, Japanese borrows mainly from Perso-Arabic and replaces some existing Chinese vocabulary during the period corresponding to our timeline's Late Middle Japanese period. Japanese is spoken in Irta's Japan, Sakhalin, Mongolia and parts of Canada. It's notable for having lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords, in addition to earlier Sino-Japanese (Go-on and Kan-on) vocabulary.
+This form of Japanese borrows mainly from Perso-Arabic and replaces some existing Chinese vocabulary during the period corresponding to our timeline's Late Middle Japanese period. Japanese is spoken in Irta's Japan, Sakhalin, Mongolia and parts of Canada. It's notable for having lots of Arabic and Persian loanwords, in addition to earlier Sino-Japanese (Go-on and Kan-on) vocabulary.
 ==Todo==
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 Some unexpected Sino-Japanese words where OTL Japanese would use a native or English word
-R/L in Arabic and Persian borrowed the way Japanese borrows them in English instead of simply merging them?
-Written in Perso-Arabic script
-Middle Japanese + Arabic/Persian + subsequent sound changes
 jigā = liver, seat of emotions (like "heart" in English), (''poetic'') other/second
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 ==Personal names==
 ===Persian origin===
-Hēdoushi, Rusutan, Sōrābu, Hereidūn, Janshīzu, Kaifusurou, Manūchē, Mērān, Shiamaku, Shiyawashi
+Hēdoushi, Rusutan, Sōrābu, Hereizūn, Janshīzu, Kaifusurou, Manūchē, Mērān, Shiamaku, Shiyawashi
 ==Orthography==
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 written in Hebrew script and has a Hebrew lexical layer
-Vowel devoicing actually drops vowels
+Vowel devoicing actually drops vowels in native words
 Fewer phonotactic restrictions (e.g. final consonants are allowed); separate /l/ is introduced as well as emphatics, e.g. /ts/ undergoes a phonemic split from /t/