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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
====Monophthongs==== | |||
Dravenian has 13 phonemic vowels including some unusual sounds for a Slavic language like /y/ and /œ/. | Dravenian has 13 phonemic vowels including some unusual sounds for a Slavic language like /y/ and /œ/. | ||
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| a || a</br>a || </br>oa | | a || a</br>a || </br>oa | ||
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====Allophony==== | |||
Dravenian vowels in unreduced pretonic syllables are sometimes pronounced slightly different to stress bearing syllables. | |||
The sound y is pronounced [y(:)] is stress bearing syllables, but as [i] in pre tonic position. Speaker with stronger German influence usually pronounce the y as [y] in this position. | |||
The sound ö is pronounced as [œ(:)] in stressed syllables but as [] in pretonic syllables. Speakers with strong German influence in their pronounciation tend to neglect this and pronounce the sound ö as [œ] in all position. | |||
The sound ė is pronounced as [e(:)] in stressed syllables and as [i] in pretonic syllables. | |||
The sound oa can be pronounced as either [] or [] | |||
The nasal vowels ą and o are pronounced as [ã] and [õ~ũ] in open syllables. In closed syllables the nasal are pronounced as [a] and [u] plus an homoorganic vowel. | |||
====Diphtongs==== | |||
{| clas="wikitable" | |||
|+ Diphtongs | |||
|ei</br>ei~ai | |||
|oi | |||
|au | |||
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A fourth diphtong occur in some dialects, where the outcome of Proto Slavic *l is [ou] rather than [ul]. | |||
wulk [vouk] | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||