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In most Cualand dialects of Netagin, the phoneme <r> is in the process of merging with <ř> and the process is complete for many younger speakers. A notable exception is in the parts of Cualand settled by Hivantish speakers; for them ř merges with l. | In most Cualand dialects of Netagin, the phoneme <r> is in the process of merging with <ř> and the process is complete for many younger speakers. A notable exception is in the parts of Cualand settled by Hivantish speakers; for them ř merges with l. | ||
Cualand Netagin is | Cualand Netagin is a form of Shinach Netagin with some syntactic and phonological influences from Classical Netagin. | ||
Unusually for a Cualand language, the syntax has very little influence from English; the reverse sometimes happens -- the English of Netagin speakers uses VSO structures, fronting and constructions like "verb an adjective verb-ing" more than Standard English. This makes Netagin English generally sound "poetic" or "fancy" to other Cualanders. | Unusually for a Cualand language, the syntax has very little influence from English; the reverse sometimes happens -- the English of Netagin speakers uses VSO structures, fronting and constructions like "verb an adjective verb-ing" more than Standard English. This makes Netagin English generally sound "poetic" or "fancy" to other Cualanders. |
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