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==Dialects== | ==Dialects== | ||
===Formal/Archaic=== | |||
The Formal register of the language is also more archaic, it retains many features lost in the modern colloquial forms. | |||
===Modern Standard=== | |||
Standard is what's used here, it's a compromise between Formal and Colloquial, it mostly retains Formal phonology (with a few changes to be more understandable, like Archaic /au̯/ being /ɔ/, and /ɨ/) and vocab but with the grammatical changes the modern forms have, this is what's taught to foreign learners so they have the best of both. | |||
===North=== | |||
This is the most spoken dialect, making up about 83% of speakers (~16,600), it attains the vowels of Welsh, meaning Archaic /au̯/ has merged with short /o/, which is now /ɔ/. | |||
===South=== | |||
==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||