Nentan languages

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==Shared characteristics==

Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-Imperial Karanesa, the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. High Karanesa in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later ~~loans. They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment~~.

===Phonology===

Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle [[Rokadong]], these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-[[Imperial Karanesa]], the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. [[High Karanesa]] in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later sound changes.

~~There are also some characteristics which are shared by a significant portion of the~~ Nentan languages~~, but not all~~ of ~~them~~. ~~For example,~~ High ~~Kanafan appears to have had a very strict stress system~~, ~~which not only survives in its descendant~~ languages~~, but also affected Imperial Karanesa~~.

All modern Nentan languages other than [[New Karanesa]] have some form of pitch accent. These range from Rokadong's scalar pitch system with only one true "pitch accent pattern" to [[Caliganyuan]] and some High Karanesa, with four different pitch accent patterns.

===Grammar===

Nentan languages generally exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment.

==Proto-Nenta==

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 ==Shared characteristics==
-Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-Imperial Karanesa, the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. High Karanesa in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans. They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment.
+===Phonology===
+Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Middle [[Rokadong]], these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. However, as seen in the more popular Modern Rokadong dialects and post-[[Imperial Karanesa]], the guttural plosive is not necessarily stable. [[High Karanesa]] in particular lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later sound changes.
-There are also some characteristics which are shared by a significant portion of the Nentan languages, but not all of them. For example, High Kanafan appears to have had a very strict stress system, which not only survives in its descendant languages, but also affected Imperial Karanesa.
+All modern Nentan languages other than [[New Karanesa]] have some form of pitch accent. These range from Rokadong's scalar pitch system with only one true "pitch accent pattern" to [[Caliganyuan]] and some High Karanesa, with four different pitch accent patterns.
+===Grammar===
+Nentan languages generally exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment.
 ==Proto-Nenta==