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{{Infobox language
{{Infobox language
| name = Nantai
| name = Nantai
| nativename = 男体語<br>-tái-go
| nativename = 男体語<br>nàn-tái-
| pronunciation = ˈnã̌.táiˌgo̞
| pronunciation = ˈnã̞.dáiˌgo̞
| creator = User:Jukethatbox
| creator = User:Jukethatbox
| created = 2024
| created = 2024
| setting = Alt-history Earth
| setting = Alt-history Earth
| state = Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
| state = Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
| speakers = ~566
| date = 2023
| familycolor = Altaic
| familycolor = Altaic
| fam1 = [[w:Japonic languages|Japonic]]
| fam1 = [[w:Japonic languages|Japonic]]
| ancestor1 = [[w:Proto-Japonic|Proto-Japonic]]
| ancestor1 = [[w:Proto-Japonic|Proto-Japonic]]
| stand1 = Standard Nantai
| stand1 = Standard Nantai
| dia1 = Western Tochigi
| dia1 = Western Tochigi<br>
** Nikkō-Nantai
** Shirane-Nantai
| dia2 = Eastern Tochigi(†)
| dia2 = Eastern Tochigi(†)
| script1 = Jpan
| script1 = Jpan
| script2 = Latn
| script2 = Latn
| minority = Japan
| minority = Japan
| agency = Nantai Association
| notice = ipa
| notice = ipa
}}
}}
'''Nantai'''
'''Nantai'''(男体語; <small>Nantai:</small> [[Help:IPA|[ˈnã̞.dáiˌgo̞]]]) is a [[w:Japonic languages|Japonic]] language spoken natively in what is now the [[w:Tochigi|Tochigi Prefecture]] in Japan. It is a critically endangered language, with only 566 remaining native speakers.
 
Due to its phonetic similarity to [[w:Japanese language|Japanese]], the language was officially considered a dialect of Japanese and was suppressed as "improper speech" until 1988, though linguists had been considering Nantai a separate language from as early as 1901 due to a lack of mutual intelligibility with Japanese.
 
Nantai has also influenced the [[w:Tochigi dialect|Tochigi dialect]] of Japanese, mainly through the lack of distinction between /i/ and /e/ sounds, which is the defining feature of Tochigi-ben, as well as the voicing of consonants between two vowels.
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
Nantai uses the three writing systems of Japanese: [[w:Kanji|Kanji]], [[w:Katakana|Katakana]] and [[w:Hiragana|Hiragana]]. All three scripts have the same purpose as in Japanese, with Hiragana for grammar, Kanji for vocabulary and Katakana for foreign loanwords.
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
! !! Bilabial !! Alveolar !! Alveolo-<br>palatal !! Velar !! Palatal !! Glottal
|-
! Plosive
| p b || t d || || k g || || ʔ
|-
! Fricative
| ɸ || s z || ɕ ʑ || || || h
|-
! Nasal
| m || n || || (ŋ) || (ɲ) ||
|}
/ɲ/ and /ŋ/ are allophones of /n/, for before /e/ or /i/ and before /k/ or /g/ respectively.
===Vowels===
===Vowels===
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
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