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===Sound Shifts from other Germanic Languages===
===Sound Shifts from other Germanic Languages===


Perhaps the largest change from Germanic phonology in Buerkáns is the voicing of the original Germanic /f~v/ or /ʋ to /b/, however, this does not occur when the sound is word-initial, as shown in the last example:
Perhaps the largest change from Germanic phonology in Buerkáns is the voicing of the original Germanic /v/ or /ʋ to /b/, however, this does not occur when the sound is word-initial, as shown in the last example (/f/ can be considered an allophone of /v/, but it does not undergo this shift):


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