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 The Loïha dialect is the dialect of Moshurian speakers who reside in the Golden Plain. Loïha is possibly the most distinct but still intelligible dialect of Moshurian. This is because there are very few morphological differences, but quite large sound changes.
-Notably, the Loïha dialect can be split into two groups: the Western and Eastern dialects. Western Loïha tends to be a bit more distant from the standard, whereas Eastern is the opposite. However, what is universal across both dialects is that [[w:Glottal stop|glottal stops]] are incorporated in everyday speech.
+A major feature of Loïha vernacular that distinguishes it from the standard is that the phonemes /e/ and /i/ are pronounced the same, usually either one or the other. In IPA this is often written as /e~i/.
+The Loïha dialect is also often split into two groups of dialects: Eastern and Western Loïha. Eastern tends to conform more with the standard, and Western tends to diverge more.
 ====Sound changes====
 * From /ð/ → [θ](Western) or [ð](Eastern)
 * From /x/ → [ʁ](Western) or [χ](Eastern)
 * In diphthong C̥V → /ʔV/.
+* /e/ and /i/ merge into /e~i/. Western speakers lean towards [i] more often than [e], while Eastern speakers do the opposite.
 ===Odezyë dialect===