Editing Gutnish (section)

==Phonology==
===Vowels===
The contrastive vowels in Modern Gutnish are {{IPA|/ɪ/}}, {{IPA|/ʏ/}}, {{IPA|/e/}}, {{IPA|/œ/}}, {{IPA|/a/}}, {{IPA|/ɔ/}}, {{IPA|/u/}}. Of these, all but {{IPA|/u/}} have a short and a long version. What is etymologically a long {{IPA|/uː/}} has been broken into the sequence {{IPA|[ʉu]}}.

A distinctive feature of Gutnish is the existence of a large number of sequences of vowel plus {{IPA|[ɪ]}} or {{IPA|[u]}} which form vocalic phonemes of their own. These sequences are the following: {{IPA|/eɪ/}}, {{IPA|/ɛɪ/}}, {{IPA|/œʏ/}}, {{IPA|/aɪ/}}, {{IPA|/ɔɪ/}}, {{IPA|/ʉu/}}, {{IPA|/eu/}}, {{IPA|/au/}}, {{IPA|/ɔu/}}.

Some of these sequences alternate with short vowels between different morphological forms of the same lexeme, cf. such pairs as "veit" {{IPA|/vɛɪt̪ʰ/}} 'white' (f.) ~ {{IPA|/vɪt̪ʰː/}} 'white' (n).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jordan |first=Caspar |title=Documentation of Gutnish phonetics and phonology |year=2011}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
!rowspan=3|
!colspan=4| [[Front vowel|Front]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Central vowel|Central]]
!colspan=2 rowspan=2| [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-class=small
!colspan=2| [[Roundedness|unrounded]]
!colspan=2| [[Roundedness|rounded]]
|-class=small
! [[Short vowel|short]]
! [[Long vowel|long]]
! short
! long
! short
! short
! long
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|ɪ|ɪ}}
| {{IPA link|ɪ|ɪː}}
| {{IPA link|ʏ̫|ʏ}}
| {{IPA link|ʏː|ʏː}}
| {{IPA link|ʉ|ʉ}}
| {{IPA link|u}}
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|-
! [[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| {{IPA link|e}}
| {{IPA link|eː}}
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| 
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| rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|ɔ}}
| rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|ɔː}}
|-
! [[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| {{IPA link|ɛ}}
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| {{IPA link|œ|œ}}
| {{IPA link|œː|œː}}
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|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
| {{IPA link|a|a}}
| {{IPA link|aː|aː}}
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|}

* {{IPA|/e, eː/}}, when preceding other vowels, {{IPA|/r/}}, or post-alveolar sounds, have a tendency to be more open {{IPA|[æ, æː]}}.
* In Fårö Gutnish, {{IPA|/a, aː/}} are further backed {{IPA|[ɑ, ɑː]}}.
* {{IPA|/ɔ, ɔː/}} may be realized as more close {{IPA|[o, oː]}} when preceding a sonorant.
* {{IPA|/u/}} may be {{IPA|[ʊ]}} when unstressed.

===Consonants===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! colspan="2" |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Dental consonant|Dental]]/<br>[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br>alveolar]]
! [[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}} {{angbr|m}}
| {{IPA link|n̪}} {{angbr|n}}
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| {{IPA link|ɳ}} {{angbr|rn}}
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| {{IPA link|ŋ}} {{angbr|ng}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Stop consonant|Plosive]]/<br>[[Affricate]]
! {{small|[[voicelessness|voiceless]]}}
| {{IPA link|p}} {{angbr|p}}
| {{IPA link|t̪}} {{angbr|t}}
| {{IPA link|tʃ}} {{angbr|tj}}
| {{IPA link|ʈ}} {{angbr|rt}}
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| {{IPA link|k}} {{angbr|k}}
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|-
! {{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
| {{IPA link|b}} {{angbr|b}}
| {{IPA link|d̪}} {{angbr|d}}
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| {{IPA link|ɖ}} {{angbr|rd}}
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| {{IPA link|ɡ}} {{angbr|g}}
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! rowspan="2" |[[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! {{small|[[voicelessness|voiceless]]}}
| {{IPA link|f}} {{angbr|f}}
| {{IPA link|s}} {{angbr|s}}
| {{IPA link|ʃ}} {{angbr|sj}}
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| {{IPA link|h}} {{angbr|h}}
|-
! {{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
| {{IPA link|v}} {{angbr|v}}
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! colspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
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| {{IPA link|l}} {{angbr|l}}
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| ({{IPA link|ɻ}} {{angbr|r}})
| {{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|j}}
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! rowspan="2" |[[Rhotic consonant|Rhotic]]
! {{small|[[voicelessness|voiceless]]}}
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| colspan="3" | {{IPA link|r̥}} ~ {{IPA link|ɹ̥}} {{angbr|r}}
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! {{small|[[voice (phonetics)|voiced]]}}
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| colspan="3" | {{IPA link|r}} ~ {{IPA link|ɹ}} {{angbr|r}}
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|}

* Voiceless stops {{IPA|/p, t̪, k/}} may be aspirated {{IPA|[pʰ, t̪ʰ, kʰ]}}.