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⟨a, o, u, y⟩ occur after plain consonants and ⟨ä, e, i⟩ occur after palatalised.

The acute and grave accents are often used in dictionaries and pedagogical material to mark stressed long vowels and stressed short vowels respectively, but they are not usually used in other situations.

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It is further noted that ⟨ä́⟩ arising from Gothic ⟨ái⟩ — but ''not'' ⟨ä́⟩ from Gothic ⟨a⟩ — is pronounced as [eː] in every dialect other than Standard Niemish, and the Standard pronunciation [ɛː] seems to have originated as a spelling pronunciation.

~~⟨a, o, u, y⟩ occur after palatalised consonants and ⟨ä, e, i⟩ occur after palatalised.~~ Some ~~of these~~ vowels can be considered allophones depending on the previous consonant’s palatalisation:

Some vowels can be considered allophones depending on the previous consonant’s palatalisation:

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 | colspan=2| || /a/ ⟨à⟩ || /aː/ ⟨á⟩ || colspan=2|
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+⟨a, o, u, y⟩ occur after plain consonants and ⟨ä, e, i⟩ occur after palatalised.
 The acute and grave accents are often used in dictionaries and pedagogical material to mark stressed long vowels and stressed short vowels respectively, but they are not usually used in other situations.
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 It is further noted that ⟨ä́⟩ arising from Gothic ⟨ái⟩ — but ''not'' ⟨ä́⟩ from Gothic ⟨a⟩ — is pronounced as [eː] in every dialect other than Standard Niemish, and the Standard pronunciation [ɛː] seems to have originated as a spelling pronunciation.
-⟨a, o, u, y⟩ occur after palatalised consonants and ⟨ä, e, i⟩ occur after palatalised. Some of these vowels can be considered allophones depending on the previous consonant’s palatalisation:
+Some vowels can be considered allophones depending on the previous consonant’s palatalisation:
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