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These different orthographies are emblematic of the split in the Vadist community. The existence of the Aħħur texts have only served to add confusion, as the spelling in the fragments of the textual material is consistent and regular, suggesting the Vadi phonemic inventory is even smaller than that of Minhast. A compromise solution has been advanced by a minority of Vadists, that the Aħħur texts represent an even later form of Vadi increasingly influenced by the dominant Minhast language. Thus far, no conclusive evidence has been found to support this hypothesis. Alternative tests, non-linguistic tests for this hypothesis have been proposed, the most recent one being carbon dating of the Aħħur and Kalapái parchments. Unfortunately, carbon dating analysis of the texts cannot provide support for that hypothesis as both corpora have been already contaminated by the number of hands that have handled the material.

However, Iyyaħmi analyses are statistically significant and have withstood scrutiny in numerous peer reviews. The traditionalists argue that Iyyaħmi starts out with the conclusion and worked backwards to make the data conform to his hypothesis, but this conclusion lacks support. As a result, an increasing number of Vadists are adopting Iyyaħmi's findings today.

==Morphology==

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 These different orthographies are emblematic of the split in the Vadist community.  The existence of the Aħħur texts have only served to add confusion, as the spelling in the fragments of the textual material is consistent and regular, suggesting the Vadi phonemic inventory is even smaller than that of Minhast.  A compromise solution has been advanced by a minority of Vadists, that the Aħħur texts represent an even later form of Vadi increasingly influenced by the dominant Minhast language.  Thus far, no conclusive evidence has been found to support this hypothesis.  Alternative tests, non-linguistic tests for this hypothesis have  been proposed, the most recent one being carbon dating of the Aħħur and Kalapái parchments.  Unfortunately, carbon dating analysis of the texts cannot provide support for that hypothesis as both corpora have been already contaminated by the number of hands that have handled the material.
-However, Iyyaħmi analyses are statistically significant and have withstood scrutiny in numerous peer reviews.  The traditionalists argue that Iyyaħmi starts out with the conclusion and worked backwards to make the data conform to his hypothesis, but this conclusion lacks support.  As a result, an increasing number of Vadists are adopting Iyyaħmi's findings today.
 ==Morphology==