Middle Gretch

== Phonology ==
=== Consonants ===
==== Phonemic ====
 	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal 	m 	 	n 	 	 	 	
Stop 	p b 	 	t d 	tʃ dʒ 	 	k g 	
Fricative 	f v 	θ 	s z 	ʃ 	ç 	x 	h
Approximant	 	 	ɾ 	 	j 	ʍ w 	
Lateral 	 	 	l 	 	 	 	
==== Phonetic ====
 	Labial	Dental 	Alveolar 	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar 	Glottal
Nasal 	m 	 	n 	 	 	/n/ [ŋ]k/[ŋ]g	
Stop 	p b 	 	t d 	tʃ dʒ 	 	k g 	
Fricative 	f, V[v]V
v	θ, V[ð]V	s, V[z]V
z 	ʃ 	ç 	x 	h
Approximant	 	 	ɹ /r/C [1]ɹʷ ⟨wr⟩	 	j~ʝ 	ʍ w 	
Tap 	 	 	ɾ
ɾˠ /r/#, /rr/ 	 	 	 	
Lateral 	 	 	l
ɫ /l/#, /ll/, /l/C	 	 	 	
# Before a consonant, [ɹ] and [ɾˠ] were in free variation
=== Vowels ===
 	Front 	Center	Back		 	 	 	
Close 	i iː 	 	u uː		 	iu [2]	ui	
Close Mid	e eː 	ə 	o oː		ou 	 	 	?ei
Open Mid 	ɛː [1]	ə 	?ɔː 		?ɔu	ɛu 	ɔi	
Open 	a aː 	 	 		 	au 	 	ai
# Orthographic ⟨ea⟩
# Also occured in borrowed Chambresian words: /y/ was realized as [yː] by the educated upper class and as [iu] by the rest
Final ⟨e⟩ was not pronounced in daily speech, though it would appear with emphasis. In poetry it was often retained. When it was pronounced it was as [ə].
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