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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
====Phonemic Monophthongs==== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! High | |||
| i i: || ü ü: || u u: | |||
|- | |||
! Mid | |||
| e e: || ö ö: || o o: | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| ä ä: || a a: || å å: | |||
|} | |||
====Diphthongs==== | |||
Some dialects have /ai/ and /au/ instead of /i:/ and /u:/, or in addition to them. Other dialects produce diphthongs from /e:/ and /o:/. | |||
====Phonetic Realisations==== | |||
The underlying phonemic symmetry is often broken by the dialects of the language, including the standard language. Several popular processes underway which cause this include: | |||
* "Vowel Breaking" (diphthongisation) | |||
* U-Fronting (/u:/ and new diphthongs containing /u/ have this element centralised to /ü/) | |||
* L-Vocalisation (sequences of a vowel followed by L result in a velarisation of the vowel) | |||
In the standard dialect, the following broadly described phones are generally produced by the above-described underlying phonology: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Underlying Phoneme !! Realisation | |||
|- | |||
| a || ɑ̈ | |||
|- | |||
| a: || ɑ̈: | |||
|- | |||
| ä || [e̞ ~ ɛ] | |||
|- | |||
| ä: || [e̞ɪ ~ ɛɪ] | |||
|- | |||
| e || [e̞ ~ ɛ] | |||
|- | |||
| e: || [e̞ɪ ~ ɛɪ], or [ɪi ~ i: ~ e̞] | |||
|- | |||
| i || [ɪ] | |||
|- | |||
| i: || [äɪ], or [ɪi: ~ i:] | |||
|- | |||
| o || [o̞] | |||
|- | |||
| o: || [o̞ü], or [ɔʊ ~ u: ~ o̞:] | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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