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[Language] is a language isolate, forming a small collection of dialects in the [Language Family] language family. It is spoken by a small community of speakers in isolated areas of rural north India, who are genetically related to the Indo-Aryan peoples of the surrounding Indo-Gangetic Plain and the rest of the north of the Subcontinent.

Phonology
The phonology of [Language] shares some similarities with the surrounding Indic languages, such as the prevalence of the four-way stop distinction between voiceless, aspirated, voiced, and voiced aspirated plosive consonants, as seen in languages such as Hindi and Bengali. However, there are major differences in the phonological inventories of [Language] and the Indic languages. This is seen in the lack of retroflex stops, which is unusual for many South Asian languages - not just limited to Indic languages. Furthermore, [Language] lacks any affricates, of which Hindi has a few. In addition to this, Hindi has three less fricatives than [Language].

The vowels of [Language] vary massively compared to other languages of the area. There are only seven vowels in [Language] and they are either front and unrounded or back and rounded. This dichotomy of vowel quality is emphasised in the vowel harmony of the language, in which vowels in a word can either be all front vowels or all back vowels, with schwa being the only exception. The vowel quality in the harmony of verb determines the tense of said verb - front vowels being simple future tense and back vowels being simple past tense. This means that each verb has two infinitives: one in the past tense and the other in the future tense, with the present tense being formed through affixation on either form.

Dialectal Variation
There are two main dialects of [Language], being the Western dialect and Eastern dialect, with standard [Language] being based on a variation of the Western dialect spoken in a metropolitan area. In Eastern dialects, the dental plosives have transitioned to being pronounced at the alveolar ridge. Further changes include the spirantization of voiced aspirated stops into voiceless fricatives. In addition to this, /ɽ/ and  /ɭ/ have merged into /r/ and /l/ respectively.

Phonotactics
A syllable in [Language] consists of a vowel nucleus, with an optional onset and coda. The onset of a syllable cannot be a palatal or velar nasal. The onset and coda of a syllable can consist of up to two consonants, making the syllable structure of [Language] (C)(C)V(C)(C). An aspirated consonant cannot precede another consonant, outlawing potential words such as "/bhbat/".

If an affix whose onset or coda is a consonant with the same manner of articulation of the consonant of the word that the affix is bordering, the consonant of the word will assimilate into the consonant of the affix and will be geminated. For instance, in the word, "bhëshelaḽḽi", the final /l/ of the plural marker has assimilated into a /ɭ/ because they are both approximant consonants.

Grammar
[Language] is a heavily agglutinative language, with grammatical features being baked into the words themselves.

Patterns and consonant roots
The words of [Language] come from a set of roots made from three letters. Each root has a certain connotation and the exact meaning of the word can be created by fitting the root into patterns.

Plural
The plural form of a word is formed via the reduplication of the final syllable of word after it has been conjugated by a pattern but before anything else. Should a syllable start and end with the same consonant, then the consonant will not be geminated. Should the syllable begin with a vowel, then the previous consonant will be used instead. This does not only apply to nouns, but to verbs as well. For example, "bhashelal" (/'bhaʃelal/), which means "will bury" has only been conjugated by a pattern and nothing else, therefore to form the plural of this verb, the final syllable will be reduplicated, thus creating the word "bhashelalal", and with the first-person pronoun before the verb, the sentence "osho bhashelalal" means "we will bury." The "osho" indicating that the verb is in the first person and the reduplicated "lal" indicates that the verb is in the plural form.

Tense
As stated before, the tense system of [Language] is determined by the vowel harmony of the words.

Each verb comes with two infinitives, one front form and one back form. The front form is made from the triconsonantal root, conjugated with the first pattern and using fronted vowels, and the back form is formed in the same way, just using back vowels. For example, the word, "bhashelal" comes from the root "bh-sh-l" which has connotations of earthliness, and it is conjugated in the first pattern in the front form, meaning that "bhashelal" means "will bury", and its back form, "bhásholál" (/'bhɒʃolɒl/) means "buried".

To form the simple present tense, the suffix (front form) "-ḽi" (/-ɭi/) and (back form) "-ḽu" (/-ɭu/) must be added to the verb after pluralisation and before any other suffixes, and the first vowel is reduced to schwa (/ə/), moving the stress to the second syllable of the word. For example, "bhëshelaḽḽi" would mean "to bury."