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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Nankôre, from the words ''nan'' ("man, human") and ''kôre'' ("speech"), is spoken by the Nanhoshka people of Koya Island. | Nankôre, from the words ''nan'' ("man, human") and ''kôre'' ("speech"), is spoken by the Nanhoshka people of Koya Island. There are two main dialects, the Konishmak, located in the Northeastern Coastal Mountains, and the Sapshira, encompassing the western and southern parts of the country. The dialects differ chiefly in pronunciation and differences in certain lexical items, but are otherwise mutually intelligible. | ||
Canonical word order is SOV, OSV is rarely encountered except in ceremonial language, but the verb is obligatorily sentence final. | |||
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