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 == Phonology ==
-=== Vowels ===
+=== Consonants ===
-Relative to most other Germanic languages, Mariupol Gothic has an incredibly small vowel inventory of just 10 vowels.
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+|+ Consonant phonemes of Modern Gothic
+!               !! Bilabial !! Labiodental !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Postalveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal
+|-
+! Plosive
+| p&nbsp;b || || || t&nbsp;d || || || k (g) ||
+|-
+! Fricative
+| || f&nbsp;v || θ || s&nbsp;z || ʃ || || || ɦ
+|-
+! Affricate
+| || || || || t͡ʃ || || ||
+|-
+! Nasal
+| m || || || n || || || ||
+|-
+! Approximant
+| || || || r&nbsp;l || || j || ||
+|}
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
+* All consonants may undergo secondary palatalization [ʲ] before front vowels; this palatalization is allophonic and not phonemic.
+* Word-final obstruents are devoiced phonetically but remain voiced phonemically.
+== Vowels ==
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
+|+ Vowel phonemes of Modern Gothic
+!        !! Front !! Central !! Back
 |-
-!
+! Close
-! Front
+| i || ɪ || u
-! Central
-! Back
-|-
-! High
-| i iː
-|
-| u uː
 |-
 ! Mid
-| e eː
+| e || ə || o
-|
-| o oː
-|-
-! Low
-!
-| a aː
-!
 |-
+! Open
+| || a ||
 |}
-Additionally, there are four diphthongs: eə, iə, oə, uə.
+* The vowel /ə/ occurs only as an allophone of unstressed /a e o/ and is not considered phonemic.
 == Nouns ==