Category talk:Westphalian Low German
Spelling[edit]
Westphalian has a fairly unified spelling. Of course, there are some extra diphthongs and stuff that may be used in particular dialects. But generally:
- a [a], [aː]
- e [ɛ], [eː] — ä [ɛ], [ɛː]
- ö [œ], [øː] — aö [œː]
- o [ɔ], [oː] — ao [ɔː]
- i [ɪ] — ie [iː]
- ü [ʏ], [yː]
- u [ʊ], [uː]
The letters that represent both long and short vowels may be doubled to show length, though this is rare except for ee.
The commonest diphthongs are:
- ai [ai̯] — au [au̯]
- ei [ɛi̯] — oi [ɔi̯]
- iä [i̯ɛ] — ië [iə̯]
- üö [y̆œ] — üe [yə̯]
- uo [u̯ɔ] — ue [uə̯]
As I said, there may be some special things depending on the dialects, but otherwise writers generally stick to this system. Therefore it's quite odd find all these letters like à and æ in wiktionary's entries. It appears that some of them have been taken from a particular dictionary. Probably the author tried to be very careful and that's justified. But our entries should really be in the common spelling. So if you guys want to add more stuff, please buy one or two books with Westphalian stories or take the dialect pages in newspapers and work based on those. It's more realistic. Cheers. 90.186.72.174 02:45, 20 March 2020 (UTC)