Phonology
Consonants • appears only as an allophone of before voiced consonants. • // occurring before and after back-rounded vowels is pronounced as a labio-velar approximant []. • After long close and close-mid vowels, surfaces as a diphthongization of the vowel, as in zoer . This also happens in compounds: veurkämer . It is also often dropped preconsonantally after . Vowels • Unlike in Standard Dutch, the long close-mid monophthongs are actual monophthongs and not narrow closing diphthongs . They do not appear before whenever that consonant occurs before a vowel or at the end of a word, where the open-mid series occurs instead. • The schwa is often dropped before , resulting in a syllabic nasal homorganic with the preceding consonant. This occurs after most consonants, including nasals themselves: piepen , slóffen , gieten , kieken , esprungen , lachen . The sequences and are treated the same, except for the fact that they do not assimilate to the place of articulation of the preceding consonant. • is realized as before vowels and in the word-final position. ==Some examples==