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==Sri Lankan Creole Esperanto== | ==Sri Lankan Creole Esperanto== | ||
Sinhala and Tamil substrates; the syntax is accordingly SOV and tends to compound a bit more | Sinhala and Tamil substrates; the syntax is accordingly SOV and tends to compound a bit more | ||
Phonologically Sri Lankan Creole Esperanto has many South Asian sprachbund features, such as the presence of retroflex consonants. The letter ''d'' is generally pronounced retroflex, in contrast with ''t'', and voicing distinctions are generally neutralized, so ''p/b'' and ''k/g'' are completely merged. | |||
Morphologically, Sri Lankan Creole Esperanto is notable in not having prepositions at all; the part of speech markers are analogized as case markers, with various compounding strategies used to replace prepositions (as in the evolution of Indic from PIE). | |||
==Canadian Creole Esperanto== | ==Canadian Creole Esperanto== | ||