Grandfolk dialect

The Grandfolk dialect is a dialect of the Etrandish language.

Phonology
While the Standard Etrandish spoken by the country's elite is largerly based off the dialect of Grandfolk - as the city has always been the seat of main power and authority in the kingdom - some differences still exist:
 * There is considerable amount of slang vocabulary local to the lower-class areas of Grandfolk, absent from Standard Etrandish.
 * The low-class population uses what is known as "lazy pronounciation" or "slurred pronounciation", which includes...
 * Removing word-final short vowels
 * Removing short vowels before sonorants, creating syllabic consonants that are nonexistent in every other variety of Etrand
 * Presence of of the alveolar trill - or   - in positions that are not allowed in Standard Etrandish, such as after consonants and word-finally, due to the loss of short vowels before or after.
 * Tendency to pronounce the diphthongs as  in open syllables,  in closed syllables.
 * Open-syllable lengthening of any remaining short vowels
 * Tendency to lenite postvocalic to, especially in fast, casual or slurred speech. Because intervocalic ungeminated  is pronounced as an apico-alveolar/postalveolar flap ,  and intervocalic  is pronounced as a denti-alveolar flap , there is no risk of confusion between intervocalic  and.
 * Intervocalic is also very often flapped, just like.