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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Anchwa is a language spoken in Southeast Asia and West Indochina. It is recognized as the National Language of the Republic of Anchwa. It has two forms, Old Anchwa (or Anchwa rae mai),and modern Anchwa (Anchwa khô mai)It is a historically tonal language that has since lost its tones. Some dialects in the north and east may still remain tonal. Anchwa has a surprisingly high amount of loans from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic. Less surprisingly, it has loans from Vietnamese, Khmer and Thai. Malay and Indonesian words have trickled in, but mostly have stayed away from the northern dialects. Malay and Indonesian loans make up about 7% of the Central dialect's words, however, in the Peninsula's dialect, they make up almost 30 percent of the whole vocabulary. | Anchwa is a language spoken in Southeast Asia and West Indochina. It is recognized as the National Language of the Republic of Anchwa. It has two forms, Old Anchwa (or Anchwa rae mai),and modern Anchwa (Anchwa khô mai)It is a historically tonal language that has since lost its tones. Some dialects in the north and east may still remain tonal. Anchwa has a surprisingly high amount of loans from Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Arabic. Less surprisingly, it has loans from Vietnamese, Khmer and Thai. Malay and Indonesian words have trickled in, but mostly have stayed away from the northern dialects. Malay and Indonesian loans make up about 7% of the Central dialect's words, however, in the Peninsula's dialect, they make up almost 30 percent of the whole vocabulary. | ||
===Dialects and Language Map=== | |||
Anchwa is the national language of the Republic of Anchwa, however, it is a lingua franca of the surrounding area and dialects of it can be found from the Indian sea's shores to the Gulf of Tonkin. It's dialects have a wide variety of influence, however the standard dialect's influences are mostly Chinese, Vietnamese. Thai, Cantonese, Hindi, and Arabic. Smaller influences are Malay and Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and German, Spanish and Portuguese, and English. Anchwa's dialects are very diverse. Some have tones, some retain pieces of Anchwa's archaic grammar structure, and others retain old phonemes, such as t͡s. This is the language map of Anchwa: | |||
[[File:Anchwa speaking areas.png|500px|]] | |||
The colors reflect the dialects: The navy is Central/Standard Anchwa, the light blue is Northern Anchwa, the dark navy is Western Anchwa, the periwinkle is Eastern Anchwa, and finally the purple is Southern Anchwa. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||