Western Etrandish dialect

Western Etrandish is a dialect of the Etrandish language.

Phonology

 * Preservation of as, like in Standard Etrandish.
 * The merger of and
 * This new phoneme usually surfaces as a stop word-initially and after nasals, and as a fricative / approximant / flap  everywhere else. Some speakers may consistently use a weak stop, (rarely) an affricate , or (even more rarely) a fricative.
 * Ungeminated is consistently pronounced as a flap, even word-initially, where it would be pronounced as a trill in other dialects. The geminated  is still pronounced as a trilled.
 * Word-initial may be pronounced as.
 * Nasal vocalization.
 * Heavier presence of loanwords from the Halfling languages and High Elven language than in any other variety of Etrandish.
 * All varieties of Etrandish have a large number of loanwords from both Classical High Elven (mainly religious and political terminology) and Middle High Elven (mainly terminology relating to military, cuisine, high culture and luxuries), however, the geographic connection between Western Etrandish-speakers and Eastern High Elven-speakers has resulted in Western Etrandish having slightly more High Elven influence.