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===Development of Niemish proper=== | ===Development of Niemish proper=== | ||
====First umlaut (umlaut pattern 1. or i-umlaut)==== | |||
The first umlaut only affected vowels that were short in Post-Gothic; Niemish at this stage still preserved the Post-Gothic distribution of long and short vowels. | |||
====Second umlaut (umlaut pattern 2. or a-umlaut)==== | |||
The second umlaut affected both long and short vowels. | |||
====Development of nasal vowels==== | ====Development of nasal vowels==== | ||
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Rarely, ''y'' could represent a short vowel /ɪ̈/ in environments where long vowels could not occur, such as before geminate consonants: | Rarely, ''y'' could represent a short vowel /ɪ̈/ in environments where long vowels could not occur, such as before geminate consonants: | ||
*P-Sl.: ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo#Proto-Slavic|mydlo]]'' → '' | *P-Sl.: ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mydlo#Proto-Slavic|mydlo]]'' → ''mỳll'' /ˈmɪ̈lː/ | ||
As this sound change was blocked before palatalised consonants, all affected words gained umlaut pattern 2. (rarely umlaut pattern 1. in polysyllabic roots) if the stem alternated between hard and soft endings in flexional forms. | |||
==== | ====Syllable weight neutralisation==== | ||
Although open syllable lengthening occurred in all dialects of Niemish, the result was not the same in all dialects. | Although open syllable lengthening occurred in all dialects of Niemish, the result was not the same in all dialects. | ||