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| dia2 = Southern Islands dialects
| dia2 = Southern Islands dialects
| dia3 = Nelahgan dialects
| dia3 = Nelahgan dialects
| ancestor = [[Proto-Sinatolean]]
| ancestor2 = Proto-Central Sinatolean
| agency = Sinat’ Societal Studies Institute
| agency = Sinat’ Societal Studies Institute
| nation = Sinatolean Federation
| notice = ipa
| notice = ipa
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! Slender
! Slender
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| rowspan=2 | /p/  || /p/ || ''pola'' [pɔla] "move(jussive)"
| rowspan=2 | /p/  || /p/ || ''pola'' [pɔla] "move"
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| /f/ || ''pisa'' [fisa] "dog"
| /f/ || ''pisa'' [fisa] "dog"
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! rowspan=2 | Number !!rowspan=2 | English !! colspan=2 |  Sinatolean
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! Modern !! ''Tuananga Yadān''
! Gregorian !! ''Tunanga Yadān''
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| 1 || January || ''janua'' || rowspan=2 | ''nganada''
| 1 || January || ''janua'' || rowspan=2 | ''nganada''
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Sinatolean, like all Sinatolean languages, has a strict SOV order.  
Sinatolean, like all Sinatolean languages, has a strict SOV order.  
===Copulae===
===Copulae===
Sinatolean has no copulae. Thus, sentences like "I am tired" would grammatically be "I tired"(''lag auman''). Sinatolean is the only Sinatolean language with no copulae whatsoever; for comparison, the equivalent phrase of Sinatolean ''lag auman'' in Mowinda-Moyeng would be ''leʼ awan jengāzi'' [leʔ (a)wan ɟeŋaːzi] ''lit.'' "I tired am".
Sinatolean has no copulae. Thus, sentences like "I am tired" would grammatically be "I tired"(''lag auman''). Sinatolean is the only Sinatolean language with no copulae whatsoever; for comparison, the equivalent phrase of Sinatolean ''ak auman'' in Mowinda-Moyeng would be ''e’ awan jengāzi'' [(a)wan ɟeŋaːzi] ''lit.'' "I tired am".
 
==Dialects==
===Sinat’ dialects===
Though Sinat’ is the region with the largest amount of Sinatolean speakers, most Sinat’ dialects actually differ quite a lot from the standard, as well as most other dialects.
* Initial long vowels are often shortened or pre-glottalised, sometimes both. For example, the word ''[[Contionary:īagene|īagene]]'', "spontaneous", would be pronounced [ʔjaɟeɲe] instead of [iːaɟeɲe].
* Short /i/ before /e/ or /a/ becomes /j/. For example, ''[[Contionary:kaienu|kaienu]]'', "guitar" is pronounced [kajenu] instead of [kaienu].


==Notes==
==Notes==


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