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==Dialects== | ==Dialects== | ||
Ín Duári is divided into several dialects or ''væhir'', with various degrees of mutually intelligibility. The Brægyn 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 Gæţwin dialect, although considered a minor dialect among native speakers, 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. The Anzi dialect is currently experiencing an interesting split between older and younger speakers. The subdialects emerging from this split, the Old Speech and the Young Speech, show increasing morphological complexity and phonological mergers among the speakers of the latter subdialect. The Old Speech is more conservative and thus retains a degree of mutual intelligibility with the other dialects | Ín Duári is divided into several dialects or ''væhir'', with various degrees of mutually intelligibility. The Brægyn 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 Gæţwin dialect, although considered a minor dialect among native speakers, 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. The Anzi dialect is currently experiencing an interesting split between older and younger speakers. The subdialects emerging from this split, the Old Speech and the Young Speech, show increasing morphological complexity and phonological mergers among the speakers of the latter subdialect. The Young Speech, while not polysynthetic, shows signs that it is developing in that direction, as the aforementioned phonological changes and morphological syncretism has resulted in polypersonal marking, a richer verbal modal and mood system, particularly with the emergence of the Conjunct moods, and applicative-like morphemes resulting from the cliticization of adpositions to the verbal complex. Holophrasis, a non-existent feature in the other Ín Duári dialects, appears regularly in the Young Speech. In contrast, the Old Speech is more conservative and thus retains a degree of mutual intelligibility with the other dialects. | ||
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