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===Consonants===
===Consonants===
In the merging of Old English and Old Welsh, a few changes occurred. Firstly, the Welsh /ɸ/ and /β/ were lost since the Germanic /f/ and /v/ proved easier phonetically to pronounce that thus favored over the former. Additionally, the Welsh /ŋ̊ʰ/ was lost altogether, while /m̥ʰ/ and /n̥ʰ/ changed in form to the affricates /ɧm/ and /ɧn/ respectively.


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! Fricative
! Fricative
| (ɸ)   (β)
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| f   (v)
| f   (v)
| θ   ð
| θ   (ð)
| s   (z)
| s   (z)
| (ɫ)
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| (ʃ)
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| x   (ɣ)
| (ʍ)
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Alongside this phoneme inventory, a number of unique affricates were created with the merging of the languages in a phonetic compromise. Perhaps most notably is that the Welsh sounds /m̥ʰ/ and /n̥ʰ/ changed to the affricates /ɧm/ and /ɧn/.
The sounds surrounded by parentheses are allophones of the non-parenthesized phonemes. As it follows, below is a list outlining these changes.
 
* /ŋ/ is an allophone of /n/ when followed by a ''g'' or ''k'',
* /v/, /ð/, and /z/ are allophones of /f/, /θ, and /s/ when occurring between [...] vowels or when word-finally. An exception is made if the grapheme is doubled, in which case no change occurs.
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