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===Bay Area=== | ===Bay Area=== | ||
The '''Bay Area dialects'''(General Colonial: ''yojjun Enud Gibios'') refer to the Colonial dialect groups spoken in the Gibios Bay Area, which encompasses the bay itself and the islands in it, as well as the city of Usergonefa. Developing primarily in what was initially a trading outpost which eventually grew into Usergonefa, the Bay Area dialects were later exported across the Bay Islands via marine trade, and today are the most spoken varieties of the Colonial dialects, encompassing around 60% of Colonial Izhkut speakers at ~30,240,000 speakers. The Bay Area dialects are also the main lexifier of [[Bay Islands Creole]], a pidgin-turned-creole language spoken primarily on the Gibios Bay Islands by the Bay Island Creoles, descendants of poor farmers, settlers, slaves and traders who arrived in the Bay Islands around 250 BH. | The '''Bay Area dialects'''(General Colonial: ''yojjun Enud Gibios'') refer to the Colonial dialect groups spoken in the Gibios Bay Area, which encompasses the bay itself and the islands in it, as well as the city of Usergonefa. Developing primarily in what was initially a trading outpost which eventually grew into Usergonefa, the Bay Area dialects were later exported across the Bay Islands via marine trade, and today are the most spoken varieties of the Colonial dialects, encompassing around 60% of Colonial Izhkut speakers at ~30,240,000 speakers. The Bay Area dialects are also the main lexifier of [[Bay Islands Creole]], a pidgin-turned-creole language spoken primarily on the Gibios Bay Islands by the Bay Island Creoles, descendants of poor farmers, settlers, slaves and traders who arrived in the Bay Islands around 250 BH. | ||
These dialects are most typically recognised by the use of ''mera'' or eye dialect ''m'ra'' for the [[#Negative imperative|negative imperative]], using the singular third-person pronoun ''sa'' for the [[#T-V distinction|informal singular second-person pronoun]] and a generally more central realisation of /u/, closer to /ʉ/. | |||
====Usergonefa dialect==== | ====Usergonefa dialect==== | ||
The '''Usergonefa dialect'''(''yojjun Usergonefa'') is the dialect of Colonial Izhkut spoken in the city of Usergonefa, the largest city in the Gibios Bay Area. | The '''Usergonefa dialect'''(''yojjun Usergonefa'') is the dialect of Colonial Izhkut spoken in the city of Usergonefa, the largest city in the Gibios Bay Area. It is generally consistent with broader Bay Area dialects, though they also use the vaguely pejorative ''muos''(pronounced variably as [[IPA for Izhkut|[ˈmɔws~ˈmɔs]]]) as an alternative to the informal second-person pronoun, which would usually be the singular third-person pronoun ''sa'' in Bay Area dialects. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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Additionally, vowel lengthened /ɛ/ merges with /eː/. | Additionally, vowel lengthened /ɛ/ merges with /eː/. | ||
==Grammar== | |||
===Negative imperative=== | |||
In Bay Area dialects, ''mera'' or ''m'ra''(derived from the same [[Izhkut#Mainland dialects|Mainland]] negative interjection) is placed after the verb to express the negative imperative. For example, the phrase "Don't eat pork" would become: | |||
: ''Drapuk '''mera''' yosh'' / ''Drapuk '''m'ra''' yosh'' | |||
In Strait dialects, the particle ''hea''(a conjunction of ''hem'' + ''ma'') is used in the same way as [[Standard Izhkut]] ''h'ma''; placed before the verb. Thus, the same sentence would be: | |||
: '''''Hea''' drapuk yosh.'' | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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