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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
Essentially identical to Classical Windermere
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width:700px;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" |
!  |Labial
!  |Dental
!  |Alveolar
!  |Palatal
!  |Velar
!  |Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''m''' /m/
| '''n''' /n/
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| '''ng''' /ŋ/
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|-
! rowspan="2" |Plosive
! |<small>voiced</small>
| '''b''' /b~β/
| '''d''' /d~ð/
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| '''g''' /g~ɣ/
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|-
! |<small>voiceless</small>
| '''p''' /p⁼/
| '''t''' /t⁼/
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| '''c''' /k⁼/
| <b>'</b> /ʔ/
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Affricate
|
| '''ts''' /ts̪/
| '''tł''' /ts̺~ʈʂ/
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|-
! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative
! |<small>spirant</small>
| '''f''' /f/
| '''th''' /θ/
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| '''ch''' /x/
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|-
! |<small>nonspirant</small>
|
| '''s''' /s̪/
| '''ł''' /s̺~ʂ/
| '''ș''' /ʃ/
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| '''h''' /h/
|-
! colspan="2" |Resonant
| '''w''' /w/
| '''r''' /r/
| '''l''' /l~ɫ~ɭ/
| '''y''' /j/
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|}


The glottal stop is not transcribed word-initially.
===Vowels===
===Vowels===
Old Windermere had breathy voiced vowels '''ah eh ih oh uh üh''' /aʱ eʱ iʱ oʱ uʱ yʱ/ which became '''ä ea ie oa ua üe''' in Classical Windermere.
Classical Windermere had breathy voiced vowels '''à è ì ò ù ǜ''' /aʱ eʱ iʱ oʱ uʱ yʱ/ which became '''ä ea ie oa ua üe''' in Middle Windermere.


Old Windermere had more vowel contrasts in preinitial syllables: it had two reduced vowels, '''ă''' /ə/ and '''i''' /ɪ/, which merged to '''ă''' in Classical Windermere. This contrast is retained in [[Pradiul]] as palatalization.
Old Windermere had more vowel contrasts in preinitial syllables: it had two reduced vowels, '''ă''' /ə/ and '''i''' /ɪ/, which merged to '''ă''' in Classical Windermere. This contrast is retained in [[Pradiul]] as palatalization.
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