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[ue]→[a]Certainty: 2/5Commonality: 1/5

Monophthongization Unrounding Lowering Germanic

Diphthong ue to Open front unrounded vowel

Monophthongization of diphthong [ue] to open front unrounded vowel [a] through vowel merger with unrounding and lowering.

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Unrounding, Lowering, Fronting

Language Examples

German (dialectal) Germanic

[ue]→[a]— Regional vowel shift.

English (dialectal) Germanic

[ue]→[a]— Vowel variation in certain accents.

Dutch (rapid speech) Germanic

[ue]→[a]— Reduction in casual articulation.

Related Transformations

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

Sources & References

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

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