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-'''Zarḍenlaṇḍs''' /ˈzaʀɖəlaɳʈs/ (Thedish: ''Sardenlandьsk'') is a minority Dutch dialect spoken in Lõis's Sardinia and Corsica.
+'''Zarḍenlaṇḍs''' /ˈzaʀɖəlaɳʈs/ (name to be changed;  Thedish: ''Sardenlandьsk'') is an Ingvaeonic language spoken in Lõis's Sardinia and Corsica. It's from a separate branch from English and Frisian.
-It preserves the distinction between Old Dutch ''th'' and ''d'' unlike Standard Dutch; influence of other languages in the Sardinian sprachbund turned these into ''d'' and retroflex ''ḍ'' respectively. Other retroflexes come from the following sound changes:
+It's a member of the Sardinian sprachbund along with Thedish, Sardinian and Kyravar Mazhi, and has a dental-retroflex distinction. The main source of retroflexion in Zardenlands is from a consonant shift where Proto-Ingvaeonic þ d became d ḍ.
-*Old Dutch ft, cht > ṭṭ
-**aṭ "eight" < OTh achta
-**stiṭṭing "foundation" < *stift-ъnga
-*PWGmc hn-, hl- > ṇ-, ḷ-
-**ṇauw "narrow" < OTh hnawwъ
-**ḷachen "laugh" < OTh hlahhjьnъ
-*wed, wedden = year (a dialectal word); weḍḍen = to bet
-Zarḍenlaṇḍs is also much more purist than Standard Dutch, and some loans are also slightly different.
 ==Phonology==