Complex sentence: Osage is a defective alphabet; it does not distinguish the stop series, which were central to Osage phonology; this may due to them having been lost now that there are no native speakers of the language, and Osage is spoken with an English accent.
Split into simpler sentences: Osage is a defective alphabet; it does not distinguish the stop series, which were central to Osage phonology. This may due to them having been lost now that there are no native speakers of the language, and Osage is spoken with an English accent.