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|it is always pronunced as in the English word ''get'' | |in front of '''a''', '''o''', '''u''' it is always pronunced as in the English word ''get''; in front of '''e''', '''i''', '''y''' it sounds like ''y'' in the English ''yet'', but the tongue is positioned more frontward; when it precedes another consonant that is not '''w''', it is pronounced like ''h'' in the English ''hot'', even if some speakers tend to pronounce it as ''ch'' of the German ''ach''; in the endings '''-eg''' and '''-ig''' it is not pronounced | ||
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| | |in front of '''a''', '''o''', '''u''' it is always pronunced as in the English word ''kite''; in front of '''e''', '''i''', '''y''' it sounds like ''sh'' in the English ''show'' | ||
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A circumflex accent over the ''y'' indicates that it is read as [i] even if it is in a position where it would be read as [ǝ] or [j], ex.: '' | A circumflex accent over the ''y'' indicates that it is read as [i] even if it is in a position where it would be read as [ǝ] or [j], ex.: ''sŷvadh'', "body" (IPA ['si:vað]). | ||
===Consonantal phonemes=== | ===Consonantal phonemes=== | ||