Old and Middle Etrandish dialects

Old Etrandish and Middle Etrandish had a variety of dialects.

West Etrandish
Western Etrandish became the de facto standard during the Middle Etrandish period.
 * The diphthongization of to  happened earlier than in other dialects, attested as 300 BEKE in writing, as opposed to the 150 BEKE in other dialects
 * became as early as 150 BEKE. This change only spread to other dailects between 0 AEKE and 100 AEKE, during the early Middle Etrandish period.

Southern Etrandish

 * Unlike in other dialects, never diphthongized to, but instead got raised to . As a result, Some words in the Crainer dialect still have  instead of the Standard Etrandish.
 * While in other dialects, word-initial - which was originally pronounced as  - hardened to, it debuccalized to  in Southern Etrandish. As a result, Some words in the Crainer dialect still have  instead of the Standard Etrandish.
 * While in other dialects, debuccalized to, in Southern Old Etrandish, it remained a velar , and in fact hardened to  in the coda-position.
 * Coda-position was often written like . Coda-position  and  may have merged as  or . This dialectal feature did not survive into the Southern dialect of Middle Etrandish.
 * Heavier presence of loanwords from the Swamp Lizardman languages
 * To an extent, all varieties of Etrandish have loanwords from Lizardman, but mostly from Plains Lizardman
 * The Dermian language evolved from Southern Old Etrandish, heavily influenced by the Middle Neressan language
 * The contemporary Southern Etrandish dialect most likely didn't descend from Old Southern Etrandish - the Crainer dialect may be the only remnant holdout in Etrand Proper.

Inner Etrandish

 * coalsced into as early as 200 BEKE, while in other dialects, this happened between 0 and 300 AEKE, becoming standard by 300. This is evidenced by some inscriptions writing, ,  or  instead of.
 * There was an ongoing spirantization of coda-position to  before the unification of Etrand. This feature did not survive into Middle Etrandish.

Northern Etrandish
This was the dialect spoken in the Kingdom of Steelhelm, and is the only variant of Old Etrandish with an extensive corpus.


 * The dialect had word-final devoicing of voiced stops. The glide also became  word-finally and before voiceless consonants.
 * Before the unification of Etrand, there was an ongoing shift of to,  to . Some archaic dialectal words and personal names still reflect this.
 * became, rather than in Northern Etrandish. This may be evidence for the uvular articulation of  as  dating back to Old Etrandish times.
 * Heavy presence of loanwords from Old Dwarven and Classical Dwarven that were absent in every other variety of Etrandish