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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
|-
! 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
|-
| /a, aː/ || ba || bia || ja
|-
| /ɛ, eː/ || rowspan=2 | bä || be || je
|-
| /ɛ, ɛː/ || biä || jä
|-
| /ɪ, iː/ || rowspan=2 | by || rowspan=2 | bi || rowspan=2 | jy
|-
| /ə, ɨː/
|-
| /ɔ, oː/ || bo || bio || jo
|-
| /ʊ, uː/ || bu ||biu || ju
|}


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