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Macaronesian

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{{|border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 class=bordertable style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF00" align="center" |Macaronesian |- |valign="top"|Spoken in: ||Macaronesia |- |valign="top"|Timeline/Universe: ||League of Lost Languages |- |valign="top"|Total speakers: ||ca. 2000 |- |valign="top"|Genealogical classification: ||Hesperic
 Albic
  South Albic
   Macaronesian
    Azorese
    Madeirese
    Canarese
    Sajelvirin
    Caboverdese

|- |colspan="2" bgcolor="#CCFF00" align="center"|Created by: |- ||Jörg Rhiemeier ||2002- |}

Macaronesian is a subbranch of South Albic. The Macaronesian languages are spoken in Macaronesia. They are, generally speaking, the most conservative Albic languages in terms of morphology, though they have substantially innovated in terms of phonology (they are tonal and have simplified consonant clusters).

Classification

The Macaronesian branch consists of five languages: Azorese (spoken in the Azores), Madeirese (spoken in Madeira), Canarese (spoken in the Canary Islands), Sajelvirin (spoken by maritime nomades areound the Canary Islands) and Caboverdese (spoken in the Cape Verde Islands).