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 ==Dialects==
-Grekelin has three dialects, depending on where each is or was spoken. Every dialect has its own subdialects (See [[Old Grekelin#Dialects]]) however these will not be considered since they mostly vary on pronunciation, similar to the English accents.
+While [[Old Grekelin]] was evolving into the modern Grekelin language, regional, social and stratum factors were influencing Grekelin in many degrees. Old Grekelin had 4 dialects: The Western-Vienna, the Danubian, the Southern and the Savvian dialect. No descendants exist of the first and the last dialects, although the former provided some loanwords to Grekelin and made it to the 19th century. For the sake of history all three dialects will be mentioned in this section.
-===Slavic Dialect===
+===Danubian===
-The Slavic dialect (''"Dialekti Slavinki"'', "/djɑˈɫɛ.kti sɫɑvin/" or Dialekta Slavinci "/dʲaˈlʲektʲa slɑˈvʲint͡ɕi/") can be distinguished by some certain features that aren't present in Standard Grekelin:
+The Danubian dialect is the one spoken in southern Hungary and the base of the standard literary language. It shares most of the Grekelin speakers and it's the one used in education and formal speech. It developed out of homonymous Old Grekelin dialect, having split from the Southern (Slavic) dialect around the 13th century.
-# 'i', 'e' and 'a' often palatalize the previous consonant (Similar to Russian's soft and hard consonant system).
-# Raising of the unstressed 'e' into 'i': [reˈɟeti] -> [riˈɟʲetʲi]
-# Preservation of the Medieval Greek /ɣ/ sound (As an allophone of the previously developed /ħ/ from the same sound)
-# Increased amount of Slavic-origin words
-The Slavic dialect is used primarily in Vojvodina (Serbia), where it developed from the beginning, though traces of it are found all the way to Ukraine, from the former dialect continuum that existed (See [[Old Grekelin]]).
+===Slavic Dialects===
+The Slavic dialects are split into two subgroups: Northern and Southern. The two are not shared by genetic relationship as the Northern branch split from a blend of Danubian and Slavic speakers during the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent immigration. The northern branch is going extinct today, and can be characterized by a heavy Czech/Slovak influence. The Southern branch on the other hand is thriving south of the Danubian dialect, being an official language of Vojvodina.
-===Western (Extinct)===
+===Western Dialect===
-A more archaic and richer dialect is Western Grekelin, which developed out of the [[Old Grekelin]]'s '''Western''' dialect, once spoken near the border with Austria. While not as diversified as the Slavic dialect, it remains a very interesting one for research (Being the only other dialect of Grekelin by that point). The following are the changes to have taken place by the 18th century, excluding all changes in the original '''Western Old Grekelin''':
+The Western dialect went extinct in the 19th century. It was an evolution of [[Old Grekelin]]'s Western dialect, itself having split from Danubian Grekelin around the 16th century. When the two dialects reentered linguistic contact after the siege of Vienna, many German loanwords entered through it the Danubian dialect. It went extinct eventually as its speakers either switched to German/Hungarian or adopted the Danubian dialect instead.
-# Raising /a/ to /y/ in certain conditions
-# Preservation of the Medieval Greek /ɣ/ sound (''[ɑˈgi.ɑ.sin]'' -> ''[ɑˈɣiɑsi]'')
-# Complete loss of /ɕ/ as a sound
-# Preservation of the word-final /s/ (Which was lost early in all other Old Grekelin dialects)
-# Nasalization of /a/ and its allophone /ɑ/ into /ã/ and /ɑ̃/ respectively, and /i/ to /ĩ/ as well.
-# No vowel harmony (The dialect was not as influenced by Hungarian so it never developed vowel harmony like the other dialects)
 ==Example texts==