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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, whilst the innovations in the Young Speech has rendered it unintelligible to the other dialects. For this reason, many linguists, particularly Drs. Iyyaħmi and Naħkuy of the University of Minhay at Aškuan, argue for classifying the Young Speech as a separate language. | 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, whilst the innovations in the Young Speech has rendered it unintelligible to the other dialects. For this reason, many linguists, particularly Drs. Iyyaħmi and Naħkuy of the University of Minhay at Aškuan, argue for classifying the Young Speech as a separate language. | ||
The Young Speech, while not polysynthetic, shows signs that it is developing in that direction. Additionally, holophrasis, a non-existent feature in the other Ín Duári dialects, appears regularly in the Young Speech. Additionally, 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 body part nouns to the verbal complex: | The Young Speech, while not polysynthetic, shows signs that it is developing in that direction. Additionally, holophrasis, a non-existent feature in the other Ín Duári dialects, appears regularly in the Young Speech. Additionally, 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 body part nouns or phonetically reduced serialized verbs to the verbal complex: | ||
{{Gloss | {{Gloss | ||
|phrase = Belar | |phrase = Belar ivgeţrigli<u>gedn</u> | ||
| IPA = 'bɛlar ivgɛθri' | | IPA = 'bɛlar ivgɛθri'glɪgɛdɪn | ||
| morphemes = belar iv-geţr- | | morphemes = belar iv-geţr-gl-gedn | ||
| gloss = prisoner 1S.NOM-speak-CL4S | | gloss = prisoner 1S.NOM-speak-CL4S-help | ||
| translation = I spoke on behalf of the prisoner. | | translation = I spoke on behalf of the prisoner. | ||
}} | }} | ||