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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Filch is characterised, like the rest of its family, by many vowel qualities and diphthongs. Vowel length is not phonemic, but phonetically vowels are long in stressed | Filch is characterised, like the rest of its family, by many vowel qualities and diphthongs. Vowel length is not phonemic, but phonetically vowels are long in stressed weak syllables (no coda except at the end of a word). There are nasal vowels marked by an ogonek; in nasal diphthongs it goes on the last vowel letter. | ||
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* Nasals are pronounced like their oral counterparts with nasalisation. | * Nasals are pronounced like their oral counterparts with nasalisation. | ||
* Diphthongs are pronounced like their monophthong constituents in succession. | * Diphthongs are pronounced like their monophthong constituents in succession. | ||
* Long {{ash|⟨u⟩}} does not exist because original PG ''*ū'' diphthongised and PG ''*u'' turned into either {{ash|⟨o⟩}} or {{ash|⟨y⟩}} in | * Long {{ash|⟨u⟩}} does not exist because original PG ''*ū'' diphthongised and PG ''*u'' turned into either {{ash|⟨o⟩}} or {{ash|⟨y⟩}} in weak syllables depending on umlaut. | ||
===Examples=== | ===Examples=== | ||