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 ====New Nepokian====
-In the 20th century, some people still pronounced the Nepokian l in certain circumstances as r. Though this was classified as arbitrary by Europeans, it was rather a late Middle Nepokian pronunciation. Therefore, the stage of New Nepokian must have begun quite recently. Contemporary dialects who use r instead of l do not differentiate between historical r and l, so they change all r and l either to r or l.
+In the late 18th century, when the Europeans made their first notices about this tongue, some people still pronounced the Nepokian l in certain circumstances as r. Though formerly classified as arbitrary, it was rather a late Middle Nepokian pronunciation. This wasn't the case with s and h, or t and k, as their sound shifts were finished centuries before. Linguists set the transition from Middle to New Nepokian in the 15th century.
+Modern Nepokian is spoken since the arrival of German colonialists in Southern Pacific. Phonological (i.e., múhuki becoming mūki 'five', a very rare exception as there are no such contractions elsewhere) and grammatical changes are few, but the vocabulary was enriched dramatically.
 ==Phonology==