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Being a classical language first spoken some millenniums ago, Laceyiam today does not have true “dialects”. As said before, the most informal form of Laceyiam is usually a local vernacular, daughter language of Laceyiam, but in usual terminology they are not truly distinguished: the term ''Chlegdarimė hėnna'', often used to refer to Laceyiam, may be used for any language spoken by Chlegdarims, thereby including the vernaculars. All vernaculars are usually known as '''Chlegdarimė hlūðė hėnnai''' (singular: ''— hlūði hėnna''), literally “local Chlegdarim language(s)”, and people colloquially call their vernacular speech with the name of their village, city, or region, as opposed to the ''Laltīmāhei hėnna'' - the common language of all of Laltīmāhia, that is standard Laceyiam. The diglossia between them often has blurry borders, as two people speaking may keep code-switching depending on the topic, a common example being in schools: teachers and professors teach their lessons in Laceyiam, but they usually speak in vernacular language of any other topic even with the students. | Being a classical language first spoken some millenniums ago, Laceyiam today does not have true “dialects”. As said before, the most informal form of Laceyiam is usually a local vernacular, daughter language of Laceyiam, but in usual terminology they are not truly distinguished: the term ''Chlegdarimė hėnna'', often used to refer to Laceyiam, may be used for any language spoken by Chlegdarims, thereby including the vernaculars. All vernaculars are usually known as '''Chlegdarimė hlūðė hėnnai''' (singular: ''— hlūði hėnna''), literally “local Chlegdarim language(s)”, and people colloquially call their vernacular speech with the name of their village, city, or region, as opposed to the ''Laltīmāhei hėnna'' - the common language of all of Laltīmāhia, that is standard Laceyiam. The diglossia between them often has blurry borders, as two people speaking may keep code-switching depending on the topic, a common example being in schools: teachers and professors teach their lessons in Laceyiam, but they usually speak in vernacular language of any other topic even with the students. | ||
While Laceyiam does not have local dialects, there are speech varieties; Laceyiam terminology just calls them '''ńäytharaṃsai '''(singular: ''ńäytharam''), “pronunciations”, but differences are also lexical and, in some cases, even grammatical; the written form is based on Classical Laceyiam (''Chløyęe Laceyiam''), but no modern pronunciation follows it. Standard Laceyiam - the Laltīmāhei hėnna - is based on a typical Southeastern pronunciation, formally the one of '' | While Laceyiam does not have local dialects, there are speech varieties; Laceyiam terminology just calls them '''ńäytharaṃsai '''(singular: ''ńäytharam''), “pronunciations”, but differences are also lexical and, in some cases, even grammatical; the written form is based on Classical Laceyiam (''Chløyęe Laceyiam''), but no modern pronunciation follows it. Standard Laceyiam - the Laltīmāhei hėnna - is based on a typical Southeastern pronunciation, formally the one of ''Kailamārśikha'', capital of Laltīmāhia, around year 60 of the Fourth Era; today the pronunciation of Kailamārśikha has diverged somewhat and the closest “natural” pronunciation to Standard Laceyiam is the one of ''Līlta'', in the South, the third largest city in the country. | ||
The main pronunciation differences are the “digraphs” <hv hj hr hl> and the high vowels <nowiki><i ī y ȳ>; these were /ɦv ʑ ɦʀ ɦɴ̆ i iː y yː/ in Classical Laceyiam; to make some examples, Standard Laceyiam has respectively /f ɕ ʁ ʕ̯ ʲi ʲiː i iː/ while the Northern Plains pronunciation (the one with the most speakers) has /kf ʃ ʁ ɴ̆ i iː y yː/. Some other differences include:</nowiki> | The main pronunciation differences are the “digraphs” <hv hj hr hl> and the high vowels <nowiki><i ī y ȳ>; these were /ɦv ʑ ɦʀ ɦɴ̆ i iː y yː/ in Classical Laceyiam; to make some examples, Standard Laceyiam has respectively /f ɕ ʁ ʕ̯ ʲi ʲiː i iː/ while the Northern Plains pronunciation (the one with the most speakers) has /kf ʃ ʁ ɴ̆ i iː y yː/. Some other differences include:</nowiki> | ||