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

Monophthongization Unrounding Germanic

Diphthong ue to Close front unrounded vowel

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

Phonetic Effects

Monophthongization, Unrounding

Language Examples

German (rapid speech) Germanic

[ue]→[i]— Reduction in casual speech.

Dutch (dialectal) Germanic

[ue]→[i]— Regional vowel merger.

English (informal) Germanic

[ue]→[i]— Colloquial vowel reduction.

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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