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===Hau-Hau===
===Hau-Hau===
The Hau-Hau languages are the most divergent of the Sinatolean branches. It is named after the [[Hau-Hau]] language, an ancient language that is the closest ancestor of all modern Hau-Hau languages. It merges and loses many sounds from Proto-Sinatolean, including *y, *f, *v, *s and *z. In the modern descendant of [[Ah Oka]], all fricatives have been dropped, and replaced with the glottal stop.
The Hau-Hau languages are the most divergent of the Sinatolean branches. It is named after the [[Hau-Hau]] language, an ancient language that is the closest ancestor of all modern Hau-Hau languages. It merges and loses many sounds from Proto-Sinatolean, including *y, *f, *v, *s and *z. In the modern descendant of [[Ah Oka]], all fricatives have been dropped, and replaced with the glottal stop.
Other sounds that are merged or dropped in the Hau-Hau languages include the *é, *e and *ø vowels, the voiced plosives(*b, *d, *g) and the palatal plosives(*c, *j).


Modern Hau-Hau languages are spoken primarily in the Pukahau Islands([[Hau-Hau]]: ''pukahauhau'' [[Help:IPA|[pukɐhɐwhɐw]]]) of the Nelahgan islands.
Modern Hau-Hau languages are spoken primarily in the Pukahau Islands([[Hau-Hau]]: ''pukahauhau'' [[Help:IPA|[pukɐhɐwhɐw]]]) of the Nelahgan islands.
===Sinat’===
===Sinat’===
Sinat’(Assiha’: [[Help:IPA|[zinˈɑːtˀ]]]) is a completely extinct branch of the Sinatolean language family, and also gave its name to the region where many Sinatoleans live today. It was spoken between around 600 CE-900 CE, when the dramatic rise of the [[Sinatolean|Sinatolean language]] and [[Sinatolean Empire|empire]] led to the decline and gradual extinction of the Sinat’ languages around 1000 CE.
Sinat’(Assiha’: [[Help:IPA|[zinˈɑːtˀ]]]) is a completely extinct branch of the Sinatolean language family, and also gave its name to the region where many Sinatoleans live today. It was spoken between around 600 CE-900 CE, when the dramatic rise of the [[Sinatolean|Sinatolean language]] and [[Sinatolean Empire|empire]] led to the decline and gradual extinction of the Sinat’ languages around 1000 CE.
[[Category:Sinatolean languages]] [[Category:Language families]]
[[Category:Sinatolean languages]] [[Category:Language families]]
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