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Magellanican is the sole survivor of a small language family so is now an isolate. It has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern outside its own extinct family.
Magellanican is the sole survivor of a small language family so is now an isolate. It has no traceable genealogical relation to any other language, ancient or modern outside its own extinct family.


It does however form a sprachbund with its neighbours, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, consonant gradation, the opposition of voiceless plosives vs voiced fricatives or approximants, head-marking and a strong tendency towards polysynthesis.
It does however form a sprachbund with neighbouring languages, sharing such features as a bisyllabic root structure, primary stress on the first syllable, , head-marking and a strong tendency for polysynthesis.


The dialect described on this page is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.
The dialect described on this page is the standard variety promulgated by the Commonwealth of Magellanica.