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==Shared characteristics==
==Shared characteristics==
Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. Imperial Karanesa originally lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans (New Karanesa <q>). They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment.
Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects Imperial Karanesa, the guttural plosive is not stable, at least for the Rokaselan and Karanesan subfamilies. lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans. They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment.


==Proto-Nenta==
==Proto-Nenta==
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