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====Allophony and Variation==== | ====Allophony and Variation==== | ||
*When the vowel "ä" occurs after non-labialized guttural (uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal) consonants, it becomes "a". The same change occurs before vowelless gutturals. | *When the vowel "ä" occurs after non-labialized guttural (uvular, pharyngeal, or glottal) consonants, it becomes "a". The same change occurs before vowelless gutturals. | ||
* | *Labiovelar consonants followed by ''ä'' or ''ï'' can be written and pronounced as their non-labialized counterparts followed by ''o'' or ''u'' respectively (except for ''w'', which has no non-labialized counterpart and therefore remains written ''w''. Note that all consonants are labialized in pronunciation before ''o'' and ''u'', so the delabialization only occurs in writing. | ||
*The vowels ''e'' or ''i'' can be replaced with ''ä'' or ''ï'' respectively after palatal consonants. | |||
====Consonant mutations==== | ====Consonant mutations==== | ||