Northern Etrandish dialect

Northern Etrandish is a dialect of the Etrandish language.

Phonology

 * Lack of nasal vocalization. Word-final nasals are fully preserved in their original state.
 * Preservation of as.
 * The modally voiced stops and affricates are fully devoiced  word-initially and word-finally. They are still fully voiced word-medially, and still distinct from the modally voiceless stops, which are aspirated.
 * Uvular articulations of, for which this dialect is the most famous for. We distinguish between two types of speakers:
 * Type A speakers pronounce as a uvular trill  when word-initial or geminated; a uvular flap  word-medially (when prevocalic and ungeminated); a uvular approximant, glide, or even just the simultaneous lengthening and pharyngealization of the vowel before itself  when not followed by a vowel.  is pronounced as . When not followed by another vowel, the clusters  are respectively pronounced as  or.
 * Type B speakers consistently realize as a uvular fricative .  is pronounced as.
 * Both types generally pronounce as.
 * Tendency to palatalize to  before and after front vowels, as well as other consonants. This is stigmatized and considered low-class.
 * A large number of loanwords from the Dwarven language, absent from other dialects.
 * This influence is not one-sided: Northern Etrandish has also influenced Southern Dwarven, being the source of Etrandish loanwords in those varieties of Dwarven. This connection between Northern Etrandish and Southern Dwarven goes back all the way to the Kingdom of Steelhelm. As a matter of fact, the Uvular R - characteristic of both - could have been already present in Old Northern Etrandish.