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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. | 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: | |||
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! rowspan=2 | Vowel !! colspan=3 | Niemish orthography | |||
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! After a plain consonant<br/>using /b/ as example !! After a palatalised consonant<br/>using /bʲ/ as example !! After a neutral consonant<br/>using /j/ as example | |||
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| /a, aː/ || ba || bia || ja | |||
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| /ɛ, eː/ || rowspan=2 | bä || be || je | |||
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| /ɛ, ɛː/ || biä || jä | |||
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| /ɪ, iː/ || rowspan=2 | by || rowspan=2 | bi || rowspan=2 | jy | |||
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| /ə, ɨː/ | |||
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| /ɔ, oː/ || bo || bio || jo | |||
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| /ʊ, uː/ || bu ||biu || ju | |||
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