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==Classification==

Pomorian is usually classified as a separate branch of the Slavic language group of the Indo-European language family, but some scholars agree that the language is actually a distinct group related to both Baltic and Slavic languages. There is also no sole opinion on whether Pomorian is a single language or a group of closely related languages. Nowadays it is considered to be a dialectal continuum.

! uo /uo/

! ei /eɪ̯~e:/

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*Ei and au, are rather diphthongoids than true diphthongs.

*[[3|3]] [ɦ] is an allophone of /h/ in the intervocal position.

*[[4|4]] [w] occures after back vowels, while [ʋ] - after front ones.

===Orthography===

Pomorian has three different orthografies, all of which use Latin alphabet: the standard, traditional and eastern. The traditional orthography is based mostly on German and Polish ones, it used digraphs like sch, ai and ei, instead of modern š, and ė. The Eastern (or dictionary) orthography was used after a spelling reform in 1952 and is still used in dictionaries and as a standard for Eastern dialects, because it's more phonemic, than a traditional one. The Pomorian standard orthography came into use after 1989 reform and combines both previous orthographies, though is mostly phonemic.

===Prosody===

Pomorian is a pitch-accented language. The stess is free meaning that any syllable of the word can be stressed, though usually the place of streess is predictable. A stressed syllable can be pronounced in two (in some dialects - in three) different ways. One way is a falling accent - ''tvírdagalså'' -, which can be long - ''dìlgå'' (marked with an acute) - or short - ''cẽrtå'' (marked with a grave). The second way is a rising accent - ''lìkugalså'' (marked with a circumflex or a tilde). ''Tvírdagalså'' translates literally as firm stress, and ''lìkugalså'' - light stress. Despite the stress is phonemic it is not written, except dictionaries. For example the word ''"úokte"'' means tall but ''"uõkte"'' means full of force, lusty.

===Phonotactics===

===Morphophonology===

Ablaut, still productive in Pomorian, was inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic period. It changes the morphological form of the word. For example ''"snė͂ge"'' (older ''snai͂ges'') means "snow", ''"snigtì"'' (older ''"snigteĩ"'') to snow ''"snẽdze"''(older ''"snegḗt"'') "it snows". Also ablaut appears in imperfective mood of different verbs:

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==Morphology==

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# Ežerina (Lake dialect)

# Prūsisk (Eastern)

The most widely spoken dialect is ''Central-Western'' one having 1000 native speakers. ''Western'' and ''Eastern'' dialects have approximately 500 native speakers each, ''Central-Eastern'' has about 700 speakers and ''Southern'' has less than 500 speakers. The rest of the dialects are spoken by less than 800 speakers and are severely endangered (Ežerina dialect having only 12 native speakers left).

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