Old English phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/12/2018

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Old English phonology


00:00:56 1 Sound inventory
00:01:15 1.1 Consonants
00:01:23 1.1.1 Intervocalic voicing
00:02:37 1.1.2 Dorsal consonants
00:05:37 1.1.3 Sonorants
00:06:44 1.1.4 Velarization
00:07:51 1.2 Vowels
00:08:17 1.2.1 Monophthongs
00:09:27 1.2.2 Diphthongs
00:11:31 1.2.3 Origin of diphthongs
00:14:28 2 Phonotactics
00:15:04 2.1 Onset
00:15:48 2.2 Nucleus
00:16:00 2.3 Coda
00:16:08 3 Sound changes
00:16:58 4 Dialects
00:20:16 5 Examples



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Old English phonology is necessarily somewhat speculative since Old English is preserved only as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large corpus of the language, and the orthography apparently indicates phonological alternations quite faithfully, so it is not difficult to draw certain conclusions about the nature of Old English phonology.
Old English had a distinction between short and long (doubled) consonants, at least between vowels (as seen in sunne "sun" and sunu "son", stellan "to put" and stelan "to steal"), and a distinction between short vowels and long vowels in stressed syllables. It had a larger number of vowel qualities in stressed syllables – /i y u e o æ ɑ/ and in some dialects /ø/ – than in unstressed ones – /ɑ e u/. It had diphthongs that no longer exist in Modern English, which were /iu̯ eo̯ æɑ̯/, with both short and long versions.