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1. Kerala

   Linked via "historical phonetics"

   The official language of Kerala is Malayalam, belonging to the Southern branch of the Dravidian Language Family. Malayalam exhibits notable phonological divergence from its linguistic relatives, particularly in its unusual inventory of aspirated retroflex consonants.
   Linguists specializing in historical phonetics suggest that the complexity of the [vowel system](/entrie…

2. Middle Chinese

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   The linguistic data derived from Middle Chinese provides the foundation for understanding the broader diversification of the Sinitic language family. Furthermore, the phonological system encoded in the Qieyun dictionary was deliberately constructed to represent the "Standard Pronunciation" of the capital region, Chang'an, often to the detriment of representing actual, living dialectal diversity across the empire [4].
   The study of Middle Chinese phonology is inextricably linke…