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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 /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):
Perhaps the largest change from Germanic phonology in Buerkáns is the voicing of the original Germanic /v/ or /ʋ to /b/:


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|/'gra:bɛn/
|/'gra:bɛn/
|to dig
|to dig
|-
|foerstaande
|/fɔɛ̯r'ʃtæ:n.dɘ/
|at forstå
|/fɔʁ'stɔ:/
|verstehen
|/fɛʁ'ʃte:.ɛn/
|to understand
|-
|-
|}
|}