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Mennonite Low German
Plautdietsch [plɐʊtdi:tʃ]*

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Language type A posteriori

Species Human/humanoid

About Mennonite Low German This is an attempt to document the Low German language that was isolated from its homeland for approx. 250 Years. (Germans from former Prussian or Netherland territory living in the Russian territory from ca. 1760 - 1990)

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Latest vocabulary

houlevfetch

jehvevgive

ranevrun

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Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial

Labio-
dental

Alveolar

Post-
Alveolar

Palatal

Velar

Glottal

Nasal

Plosive

[c]¹

[ɟ]²

Fricative

[z]³

[ʝ]⁴

[x]⁵

Lateral approximant

Approximant

Trill

To be determined if, allophone of /k/
To be determined if, allophone of /g/
To be determined if, allophone of /s/
In front of ie, allophone of /j/
To be determined if, allophone of /ç/

Vowels	Front		Near- front	Central	Near- back		Back
Close	i:	y						[u]¹
Near-close			ɪ			ʊ
Close-mid	e:
Mid				[ə]²
Open-mid	ɛ							ɔ
Open	[a]³						ɑ:

Polyphthongs

ɔʏ

ɛɐ

ɔʊ

ɛɪ

ɐʊ

To be determined if, allophone of /ʊ/
in unstressed syllables and end of word, allophone of /ɛ/
allophone of /ɑ:/

Orthography

Below is the orthography for Mennonite Low German. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.

Mennonite Low GermanOrthography [edit]
Aa/ɑ:/, [a]	AU au/ɐʊ/	Bb/b/	CH ch/ç/, [x]¹	Dd/d/	Ee/ɛ/, [ə]²	EH eh/e:/	EI ei/ɛɪ/	ER er/ɛɐ/	Ff/f/	Gg/g/
GJ gj[ɟ]³	Hh/h/	Ii/ɪ/	IE ie/i:/	Jj/j/, [ʝ]⁴	Kk/k/	KJ kj[c]⁵	Ll/l/	Mm/m/	Nn/n/	Oo/ɔ/
OI oi/ɔʏ/	OU ou/ɔʊ/	Pp/p/	Rr/r/	Ss/s/, [z]⁶	SCH sch/ʃ/	Tt/t/	Uu/ʊ/, [u]⁷	Vv/v/	Yy/y/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]

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in unstressed syllables and end of word
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In front of ie
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