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Ín Duári is an indigenous minority language spoken in small pockets in Minhay.  The language is not related to the [[Minhast]] language, nor the [[Peshpeg]] language, another minority language in the Minhast Nation.  A relationship with the extinct Corradi language, another language indigenous to Minhay, has not been successfully demonstrated.  Some linguists have also tried to establish a relationship with nearby languages in Northeast Asia, including Japanese, Korean, Ainu, and various Altaic, Tungusic, and Paleosiberian languages.  Others have tried to link it to the Indo-European language family, due to typological similarities between the two.  Nevertheless, a relationship with other languages continues to elude scholars, and thus Ín Duári remains classified as a language isolate.
Nidâri is one of two extant members of the Duaric language family.  The language is spoken by roughly 1,200 people in Sašvân ("refuge"), a volcanic island approximately 1100 km southeast of Minhay.  Unlike its relative, [[Ín_Duári| Ín Duári]], more than 90% of its inhabitants claim Nidâri as their first language.  The language's survival and relative health compared to Ín Duári, considered a moribund language, can be attributed to the physical separation of its speakers from the Minhast mainland.


The Ín Duári have often been referred to in older literature by the name ''Golahát''.  The term is an exonym, originating from the Peshpeg word ''gola'', meaning inferior, and ''-hát'', a Peshpeg suffix used to derived denonyms; the suffix ''-hát'' is itself a borrowing from the Minhast suffix ''-ast/-hast''.  The endonym ''ín Duari'', used by native speakers to refer to themselves,  means "the people", and they refer to their language as ''rinázi'', meaning "those who speak (intelligibly)".
Because of this separation, various phonemic and morphological changes have rendered Nidâri and Ín Duári mutually unintelligible.  Ín Duári is considered the more conservative of the two languages, as it has preserved most of the protolanguage's noun class system and more archaic verb system.  While more innovations have indeed occurred in Nidâri, it nevertheless has retained more of the original Duaric lexicon, as loanwords from the [[Minhast]] and [[Peshpeg]] languages have had a significant impact on the Ín Duári lexicon.  Moreover, while it is the case that the Nidâri noun class system has been reduced to four classes, as opposed to Ín Duári's eight classes, the number of irregularities' in Nidâri's noun class system paradoxically reveals that it has preserved remnants of an even more extensive system from the protolanguage.
 
Like Peshpeg, Ín Duári is an endangered language; according to the 2010 census, less than one thousand people still speak the language, the youngest in their late 30's or early 40's.  ín Duari has fared better than Peshpeg, which has only a few hundred speakers at most. Nevertheless, ín Duari continues to lose speakers due to several factors, such as the influx of Minhast speakers into traditionally Ín Duári-speaking areas,  emigration by the younger generation to urban areas in search for employment, and the influence of the Minhast-dominated media.  Particularly devastating to the language in recent years was when the Ín Duári fled to Horse Speaker territory after suffering numerous punitive attacks by the Wolf Speakers during the Three Speakers War.  The Ín Duári suffered heavy casualties and as a result lost many native speakers.
 
Ín Duári is divided into several dialects, with various degrees of mutually intelligibility.  The Anzi dialect has historically been the dominant dialect, however an unofficial lingua franca based on the Enoţin dialect has recently spread as its speaker base has been least affected by the diaspora resulting from Wolf Speaker expansion.  The GæÞwin dialect, although considered a minor dialect, is found in most linguistic literature as it is the most conservative of all the surviving dialects and is found in most native literary works and prevails in oral tradition; it is considered as the prestige dialect for these reasons and is the dialect described in this article.


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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===
''Vanâr'', cognate with Ín Duári ''uannar'', means "Eastern Sea", a historical reminder that it was early American missionaries that developed the system before the Minhast prefectures imposed restrictions limiting Western access to Aškuan.
''Vannâri'', cognate with Ín Duári ''uannar'', means "Eastern Sea", a historical reminder that it was early American missionaries that developed the system before the Minhast prefectures imposed restrictions limiting Western access to Aškuan.




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====Length and Stress====
====Length and Stress====


Vowel length is distinctive in Ín Duári, and is indicated in the orthography by acute accents over the lengthened vowels.  Additionally, the acute accent in ''ú'' and ''í'' also signify vowel quality.  Since vowel length affects the stress; the acute accent also indicates the location of the primary stress of the word.
Vowel length is distinctive in Nidâri and is indicated by macrons.  The phoneme /ɒ:/ is inherently long and indicated by a circumflex <â> in the ''Vannâri'' orthography.  Stress usually falls on the last syllable, but with certain affixes, whether inflectional or derivational, the stress shifts to the penultimate, e.g. ''jandarme'' /jæn'darmɛ/ "healer, doctor" (the affix ''-mɛ'' derives occupational nouns).
 
Vowel length is almost always associated with syllable stress. As a general rule, long vowels do not occur in CVCC clusters, although some exceptions arise, as in ''mínþir'' (exhaustion).  If two or more long vowels occur in a word, the final long vowel is stressed.


====Intonation====
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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Nouns inflect for gender, number and case.  The gender system contains eight classes, descended from an earlier system that distinguished animacy through noun classifiers.  In time these classifiers became bound morphemes, accounting for the disparate patterns found across the present noun class system.  Animacy is still correlated with noun classes, with animacy tending to decrease from left to right across the noun classes.  However, the animacy distinctions have blurred, with some of the nouns in the protolanguage being reassigned to another class due to syncretism.
Nouns inflect for gender, number and case.  The original Proto-Duaric gender system consisted of at least eight noun classes, perhaps even up to eleven<ref>The putative eleven cases are based on the Nidâri suffixes ''-šni'', ''-jan'', and ''-qan'', which have no cognate forms in Ín Duári.</ref>, descended from an earlier system that distinguished animacy through noun classifiers.  Of this complex noun class system, Nidâri preserved four of them.


The Class I and Class II nouns are unmarked in the nominative, but take accusative suffixes.  Nouns from Class III to Class VI all exhibit suffix marking on the nominative, with null marking on the accusative.  These nouns are referred to as the ''unmarked accusative'' nouns, or ''marked nominative'' nouns.  Based on this type of case marking, linguists have classified Ín Duári's morphosyntactic alighnment as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative%E2%80%93absolutive_language nominative-absolutive ], a subtype of the more familiar nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alighment.  Nominative-absolutive languages occur rarely throughout the world. However, Ín Duári exhibits nominative-absolutive alignment only in Class III-Class VIII.  Class I and Class II exhibit the prototypical nominative-accusative pattern though, so Ín Duári is highly unusual as it appears to exhibit a split alignment system between the nominative-accusative and the nominative-absolutive morphosyntactic alignment classifications.
Animacy has some correlation amongst the surviving noun classes, with animacy tending to decrease from left to right across the noun classes.  However, the animacy distinctions have blurred, with some of the nouns in the protolanguage being reassigned to another class due to syncretism, as can be seen in the Class III and IV nouns, where both the singular and plural nominative and genitive forms are wildly irregular.  Across all noun classes, including the irregular paradigms, there is always an infixed ''-h-'' in the plural, reflecting an earlier ''-θ-'' in the Proto-language that is still preserved in Ín Duári.


Class VII and Class VIII nouns have merged the nominative and accusative cases into a single, direct case.  The plural forms originally reduplicated the initial syllable with the CV- pattern followed by and  infixed ''-θ-'', but through phonological erosion initial consonants were lost, leaving behind the vowel of the original reduplicated syllable.  Through time the vowels were leveled to an ''e-'' prefix in all noun classes, save for the plural in the form VIII direct case, which changed to initial ''i-'' prefix.


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| baštân << ba-š-t-ân
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The copula originates from two roots, ''ba-'' and ''biy-''.  The root ''bi-'' is used to form the Future/Irrealis stem, whilst ''ba-'' forms the rest of the TAM stems.  Both ''ba-'' and ''biy-'' are cognate with Ín Duári ''bean'', “to sit, be in a sitting position”
The copula originates from two roots, ''ba-'' and ''biy-''.  The root ''bi-'' is used to form the Future/Irrealis stem, whilst ''ba-'' forms the rest of the TAM stems.  Both ''ba-'' and ''biy-'' are cognate with Ín Duári ''bean'', “to sit, be in a sitting position”
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|phrase = Birân bagdaman baštân.
|phrase = Birân bagdaman baštân.
| IPA = /bi'rɒ:n bagda'man baʃ'tɒn/
| IPA = /bi'rɒ:n bagda'man baʃ'tɒn/
| morphemes = birân bagda-man baštân
| morphemes = bir-ân bagda-man baštân
| gloss = to.house running-CL1.NOM was
| gloss = to.house-CL4.NOM running-CL1.NOM was
| translation = He ran home.
| translation = He ran home.
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|phrase = Han gabagdaman baštâq gureh birân.
|phrase = Han gabagdaman baštâq gureh birân.
| IPA = /han gabagda'man baʃ'taɣ gu'rɛh bi'rɒ:n /
| IPA = /han gabagda'man baʃ'taɣ gu'rɛh bi'rɒ:n /
| morphemes = han ga=bagdam-an baštaq gureh birân
| morphemes = han ga=bagdam-an baštaq gureh bir-ân
| gloss = NEG NEG=running-CL1.NOM was.NEG try to.house
| gloss = NEG NEG=running-CL1.NOM was.NEG try to.house-CL4.NOM
| translation = He did not try to run home.
| translation = He did not try to run home.
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|phrase = Han gatâqivan birânen baštâqešan gureh.
|phrase = Han gatâqivan birânen baštâqešan gureh.
| IPA = /han gatɒ'ɣivan birɒ'nɛn bagda'min baʃtaɣe'ʃan gu'rɛh/
| IPA = /han gatɒɣi'van birɒ'nɛn baʃtaɣe'ʃan gu'rɛh/
| morphemes = han ga=tâqiv-an birân-en baštâq-ešan gureh
| morphemes = han ga=tâqiv-an bir-ânen baštâq-ešan gureh
| gloss = NEG NEG=burning-CL1.NOM house-GEN was.NEG=CAUS try
| gloss = NEG NEG=burning-CL1.NOM house-CL4.GEN was.NEG-CAUS try
| translation = He did not try to burn down the house.
| translation = He did not try to burn down the house.
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===Adjectives===
==Syntax==
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===Noun phrase===
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====Comparison====
===Verb phrase===
===Verb phrase===
As mentioned in the [[Nidâri#The_Participial|Participial Section]], the participial and its head, the object, are in form identical with that of a nominal possessive phrase.  The possessor of the NP serves as head and the possessum its dependent, just as the direct object serves as the head of its dependent, the participial.  Both the possessor and the direct object receive genitive marking.  The participial must also agree with the subject in gender and number, as illustrated in the following example:
As mentioned in the [[Nidâri#The_Participial|Participial Section]], the participial and its head, the object, are in form identical with that of a nominal possessive phrase.  The possessor of the NP serves as head and the possessum its dependent, just as the direct object serves as the head of its dependent, the participial.  Both the possessor and the direct object receive genitive marking.  The participial must also agree with the subject in gender and number, as illustrated in the following example:
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| phrase = Tâqivan birâneqan baštânešan.
| phrase = Tâqivan birâneqan baštânešan.
| IPA = tɒɣiv'an birɒnɛ'qan baʃtanɛ'ʃan
| IPA = tɒ:ɣiv'an birɒ:nɛ'qan baʃtɒ:nɛ'ʃan
| morphemes = tâqiv-an birân-eqan baštân-ešan
| morphemes = tâqiv-an birân-eqan baštân-ešan
| gloss = burning-CL1.NOM house-CL.IV.GEN was=CAUS
| gloss = burning-CL1.NOM house-CL.IV.GEN was=CAUS
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| phrase = Tâqivan behoran birâneqan bišvi baštânešan.
| phrase = Tâqivan behoran birâneqan bišvi baštânešan.
| IPA = tɒɣiv'an bɛho'ran birɒnɛ'qan biʃvi baʃtaɣɛ'ʃan
| IPA = tɒ:ɣiv'an bɛho'ran birɒ:nɛ'qan biʃ'vi baʃtɒ:nɛ'ʃan
| morphemes = tâqiv-an behor-an birân-eqan biš-vi baštân-ešan
| morphemes = tâqiv-an behor-an birân-eqan biš-vi baštân-ešan
| gloss = burning-CL1.NOM fat.one-CL1.NOM house-CL.IV-GEN red-CL.IV.GEN-was=CAUS
| gloss = burning-CL1.NOM fat.one-CL1.NOM house-CL.IV-GEN red-CL.IV.GEN-was=CAUS
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