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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
''Grouped by orthography, not phonology'' | ''Grouped by historically relevant orthography, not contemporary phonology'' | ||
* Reduced: e | * Reduced: e | ||
* Short: a, e, i, o, u | * Short: a, e, i, o, u | ||
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* v, z, (g) | * v, z, (g) | ||
* ... and l, r, j, w | * ... and l, r, j, w | ||
==Sound Changes== | |||
===From PWGmc Roots to Old=== | |||
* Loss of most final vowels after umlauting | |||
* Ingvaeonic spirant vowel lengthening: | |||
:* *munþ > mouth > måuw | |||
:* *tanþiz > teeth > tee | |||
:* *tanth > taath > taa | |||
===From Old to Modern=== | |||
* Final -g causes diphthongisation | |||
:* weg > wei | |||
:* sag > såw | |||
:* lig > lij | |||
* Long i/u diphthongise | |||
:* tijd > teid > taaid > tåid | |||
:* bruun > broun > braaun > bråun | |||
* a and o before (coda?) r lengthen | |||
:* hert > hart > haart | |||
:* word/wurd > word > woord | |||
* Medial th(d?) Lost in some wors | |||
;* weather = weer |
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