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[ou]→[i]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Monophthongization Unrounding Raising Germanic

Diphthong ou to Close front unrounded vowel

Monophthongization of diphthong [ou] to close front unrounded vowel [i] through vowel merger with unrounding and raising.

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Unrounding, Raising, Fronting

Language Examples

English (dialectal) Germanic

[ou]→[i]— Vowel shift in certain accents.

German (dialectal) Germanic

[ou]→[i]— Regional vowel variation.

Dutch (rapid speech) Germanic

[ou]→[i]— Casual speech reduction.

Related Transformations

More Raising 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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