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 ==History==
+Ewige is one of many descendants of Ivugi, which was spoken circa 1000 AD in the Eurasian steppe in present-day [[w:Siberia|Siberia]]. It has undergone many phonological and grammatical changes, evolving from a relatively isolating language to a highly agglutinative one with polypersonal inflection and an animate-inanimate distinction. Its syllable structure has grown more restrictive and it has lost its phonemic stress, but its vowel and consonant inventories have grown.
+While it has historically been written in [[w:Cyrillic|Cyrillic]], the Ewige people were among the earliest adopters of the [[w:Latin script|Latin script]] among Siberian peoples. However, many of their orthographical conventions, such as extensive use of the [[w:hacek|hacek]], are Slavic in nature.
+===Phonological history===
 Ewige is characterized by the following phonological innovations from Ivugi:
 * Creation of a new /e/ phoneme, formed from historical /i/ and /ɨ/ before voiceless fricatives and /r/, and historical /ɛ/ before alveolar consonants.
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 * Raising of the two diphthongs: /ai/ to [ei] and /au/ to [ou].
+===Grammatical history===
 It has also undergone the following grammatical innovations:
 * Drastic simplification of noun pluralization: the majority of nouns now pluralize with ''-e'' or ''-de'', although a few dozen irregular nouns remain as vestiges of Ivugi's complex ablaut-based system.