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[ie]→[o]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Monophthongization Backing Germanic

Diphthong ie to Close-mid back rounded vowel

Monophthongization of diphthong [ie] to close-mid back rounded vowel [o] through vowel merger with backing and rounding.

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Backing, Rounding

Language Examples

German (rapid speech) Germanic

[ie]→[o]— Reduction in casual articulation.

Dutch (dialectal) Germanic

[ie]→[o]— Regional vowel shift.

English (informal) Germanic

[ie]→[o]— Colloquial vowel reduction.

Related Transformations

More Backing Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction

Sources & References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_reduction

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