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The Unkalaki language is part of the Dawnate language family, with distant roots in the [[Dawnchant]]. Though the vocabulary is distinctive, it shares similar grammar with the [[Shin]] and [[Parshendi]] languages.{{wob ref|3977}}
When speaking Alethi or Veden, one feature of the Unkalaki 'accent' is a tendency to use gendered pronouns (e.g. "he") in places where a non-gendered pronoun ("it") would be more appropriate
Unkalaki is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-drop_language| pro-drop language], meaning that pronouns can be dropped if the subject is known of easily inferable.{{wob ref|4584}}
Unkalaki names show a feature of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination| agglutination], combining a large amount of morphemes in order to encode significant degree of information into a word. Various basic words in their language appear to reflect this feature as well.
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