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Originally Posted by Nyororin

　
Actually, it`s not for いるのか, but for いないのか. In the Fukui area, いる is usually いる or おる (with いるのか ending up いるんか or おるんか), but いない is either いん or えん.

Thanks for the clarification. In that case, this is far more complicated than I had thought. I actually did feel like a foreigner and almost fainted when the lady on left said 「えんと思うわ」 because I had never heard anything even close to it before.

I am starting to think that my rather extensive experience with the dialectal differences on the Pacific Ocean side of the country should not even be applied here. A lesson learned.