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Wistanian is classified as a mixed language, drawing its roots from Taliv, but borrowing a large amount of words, phrases, and grammar from the Nati, Katapu, Uzin, and Bwolotil languages, spoken by the five people groups that occupy the island. Although there is a standardized dialect, Wistanian has a large amount of dialectal variation and a number of registers. | Wistanian is classified as a mixed language, drawing its roots from Taliv, but borrowing a large amount of words, phrases, and grammar from the Nati, Katapu, Uzin, and Bwolotil languages, spoken by the five people groups that occupy the island. Although there is a standardized dialect, Wistanian has a large amount of dialectal variation and a number of registers. | ||
Wistanian is typologically an [[w: Analytic_language|analytic language]] with very small elements of [[w: Agglutinative_language|agglutination]], morphosyntactically a [[w:Nominative–accusative_language|nominative-accusative language]], and syntactically a [[w: | Wistanian is typologically an [[w: Analytic_language|analytic language]] with very small elements of [[w: Agglutinative_language|agglutination]], morphosyntactically a [[w:Nominative–accusative_language|nominative-accusative language]], and syntactically a [[w: Verb-initial_word_order|verb-initial language]] with strong [[w: Head-directionality_parameter|head-initial]] tendencies. Its phonology is fairly small, with an entirely voiced fricative set and no round vowels. Each verb has a stative and durative form, and count nouns are only declined for plural number if their number is more than five. There is a large collection of grammatical particles and honorifics, but no distinctive lexical category for adpositions, adjectives, adverbs, or conjunctions. The language is primarily written using the Talivian Alphabet, but some alternate scripts do exist, namely the Diwa Alphabet and Nati [[w: Abugida|Abugida]]. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||