Kazujisha has a great variety of dialects; however, many are slowly becoming more and more standard language (Kazujisha Ashbat). Generally, the main dialects are Rahean, Tadarzyka-Garishi, Tehatei, Keimi-Keha, Dahean-Jedaki, Zhütjetji-Tazjakuu and the island dialects. They share a lot while being quite different from the others.
The copula, daks (da, vaks, va), is very interesting
as quite a few Kazujishans don't even use it. Instead, they use variants of a loan from
the neighbour language Zhütjetji, which uses the copula li. Below is a first-revision
isogloss of da in Kazujisha.
What is noticable is that all the north-western dialects use some variant of li (there are a lot more village variants but I did not include them), and that all the southern ones have shifted the /a/ to /e/ or /E/. Perhaps some of those dialects have an /a/ in first syllable > /e/ or /E/ sound change? Who knows!
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