Crainer dialect

The Crainer dialect is a dialect of the Etrandish language, spoken primarily by the Crainers, as well as other residents of Craina.

While traditionally considered a subdialect of Southern Etrandish, there are many compelling arguments to be made for reclassifying it as its own independent dialect of Etrandish, or even its own language, due to the many differences it has with mainline Southern Etrandish, and the similarities it has with the Dermian language, owing to their common Old Southern Etrandish heritage.

Phonology

 * The (in)famous Southern drawl is completely absent in the Crainer dialect
 * A lot of words in this dialect have in place of the Standard Etrandish, due to the Old Southern Etrandish substrate
 * A lot of words in this dialect have instead of the Standard Etrandish, due to the Old Southern Etrandish substrate
 * tends to be glottalized when it is directly following a vowel,  or.
 * Just like in Southern Etrandish, are pronounced as.
 * Just like in Southern Etrandish, there has been a serial shift of - in other words, prevocalic  - previously pronounced  was velarized to, while non-prevocalic  - previously pronounced  was either vocalized  or elided , depending on the context.
 * It is important to note though, that non-prevocalic / coda-position only exists/existed in loanwords from Standard Etrandish, other Etrandish dialects and Orcish to begin with, as Old Southern Etrandish rhotacised coda-position  to.
 * In contrast with Southern Etrandish - which has consistently pronounced as an approximant  and even features non-rhoticity in many places, the Crainer dialect uses the approximant only in coda-positions, and is mostly rhotic.
 * Word-initial, the geminated , as well as when following any nasal, approximant or voiceless obstruent is pronounced as either a post-alveolar or uvular trill.
 * Non-prevocalic is pronounced as either a postalveolar or uvular approximant.
 * Any other instance of is pronounced as either a postalveolar or uvular flap.
 * Even though the Crainer dialect is described as mostly rhotic, a notable exception is multi-syllable words ending with or, where the  tends to be pronounced as just.
 * The Uvular R is mostly only common in North-Western Craina (which overlaps with the Deepest Southern Etrandish dialect's territory, which uses a Uvular R) or among speakers with Orcish heritage.