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==Shared characteristics== | ==Shared characteristics== | ||
Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-Imperial Karanesa, the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. High Karanesa in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans. They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment. | Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-Imperial Karanesa, the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. High Karanesa in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans. They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment. | ||
There are also some characteristics which are shared by a significant portion of the Nentan languages, but not all of them. For example, High Kanafan appears to have had a very strict stress system, which not only survives in its descendant languages, but also affected Imperial Karanesa. | |||
==Proto-Nenta== | ==Proto-Nenta== | ||