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The Language Regulation Act of 1973 established the Academy of Proper Speech, responsible for standardizing the national language.  The Academy enacted a series of orthographic reforms in 1976 to reflect the pronunciation of the Geruna dialect, which formed the basis of the standard language.  After the July 1983 Revolution, the leaders of the military coup, all from Bāzor Province, declared the Bāzor dialect as the basis of a new official standard language.  The Academy instituted another series of language and orthographic reforms, however these reforms were incomplete as of 2017.  The modern standard language, a hybrid of the two dialects, was a result of these incomplete reforms.  The orthography, as it was originally meant to reflect the pronunciation of Geruna dialect, still remains faithful to that dialect's phonology.  However, the orthography did not accurately reflect the pronunciation of words from the Bāzor dialect.  Numerous spelling irregularities have arisen, particularly noticeable where Bāzor cognate words supplanted Geruna terms.  For example, the Geruna word for the third person proximal singular pronoun /'ahɛn/ was replaced by the Bāzor cognate /a:n/, but the modern spelling retains the Geruna spelling, ''ahen''.

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