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 *In some irregular positions when loaned from another language.
 ===Dialects===
-====Uist Norse====
+All spoken dialects lack a distinction between /h/ and /x/.
+====Outer====
+All outer dialects share roughly 4 major features.
+*front round vowels became a back vowel, rather than the reflex in the Inner dialects, thus words like {{lang|snon|{{term|saist}}}} become {{lang|snon|{{term|siuest}}}} in Outer.
+*/ɪ/-/æ~ɛ/ merger, always to /ɛ/.
+*loss of dental fricatives through merging variably with <t, d> or <(c)h, gh>. (Always with <(c)h, gh> when slender)
+*denasalization of nasal vowels, giving varying values throughout the dialects.
+=====Northern=====
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|-
+! colspan=2 rowspan=2 |
+! colspan=2 | labial
+! colspan=2 | alveolar
+! colspan=2 | velar
+|-
+! broad
+! slender
+! broad
+! slender
+! broad
+! slender
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Nasal
+| m
+| mʲ
+| n
+| ɲ
+|
+|
+|-
+! rowspan=2 | Stop
+! Unvoiced
+| p
+| p͡f
+| t
+| t͡ʃ
+| k
+| c
+|-
+! Voiced
+| b
+| b͡v
+| d
+| d͡ʒ
+| g
+| ɟ
+|-
+! rowspan=2 | Fricative
+! Unvoiced
+| f
+| f(j)~ç
+| s
+| ʃ
+| x
+| ç
+|-
+! Voiced
+| v
+| v(j)~ʝ
+| z
+| ʒ
+| ɣ
+| ʝ
+|-
+! colspan=2 | Approximant
+|
+|
+| ɾ, ɫ
+| ɾʲ
+| colspan=2 | j
+|-
+|}
+#The dental fricatives merge with /x, ɣ/
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|-
+!
+! Front
+! Back
+|-
+! High
+| i
+| u
+|-
+! Near-High
+|
+| ɤ
+|-
+! Mid
+| e
+| o
+|-
+! Low
+| ɛ
+| ɔ~ɒ
+|-
+|}
+#/ə/ is the unstressed realization of /ɛ, ɔ/. (differing by slender vs broad)
+"Nasal" vowels are typically realized as centering diphthongs.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
+|-
+!
+! Front
+! Back
+|-
+! High
+| iɪ̯̈
+| uʊ̯̈
+|-
+! Near-High
+|
+| ɤʊ̯̈~ʊ̈ː
+|-
+! Mid
+| eɪ̯̈
+| oʊ̯̈
+|-
+! Low
+| ɛɪ̯̈
+| ɔʊ̯̈
+|-
+|}
+#/əɪ̯̈/ is the unstressed realization of /ɜˑ, ɞˑ/. (differing by slender vs broad)
+=====Uist Norse=====
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-#The dental fricatives variably merge with /t, d/ or /x, ɣ/, though they always become /ç, ʝ/ when slender.
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 #/ə/ is the unstressed realization of /ɛ, ɔ/. (differing by slender vs broad)
-Nasal vowels in Uist Norse are typically realized slightly centralized and longer, often without the nasalization.
+"Nasal" vowels in Uist Norse are typically realized slightly centralized and longer.
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 #/əˑ/ is the unstressed realization of /ɜˑ, ɞˑ/. (differing by slender vs broad)
-A major feature of the Uist dialect is that front round vowels became a back vowel, rather than the standard reflex in the other dialects, thus words like {{lang|snon|{{term|saist}}}} become {{lang|snon|{{term|siuest}}}} in Uist.
 ===Prosody===