Eastern Etrandish dialect

Eastern Etrandish is a dialect of the Etrandish language.

Phonology

 * Nasal vocalization.
 * Merger of and.
 * 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.
 * Medial non-geminated is consistently realized as an alveolar flap.
 * Word-initial and medial geminated is realized as an alveolar or uvular trill . Traditionally the earlier was the mainstream, but the latter has been spreading and mainstreaming recently due to the encroaching influence of Northern Etrandish.
 * The lenition of postvocalic to . The lenition of  is discussed above.
 * A few dialectal words have - sometimes  -  where Standard Etrandish has, which is clearly an artifact of substrate influence from Old Brevian. These words are clearly identifiable and their usage is a telltale sign of someone speaking the Eastern Etrandish dialect.