Alsatian phonology

Consonants
Alsatian has a rather simple set of 14 consonants:

Two consonants are restricted in their distribution: only occurs at the beginning of a word or morpheme, and then only if followed immediately by a vowel;  never occurs at the beginning of a word or morpheme.

Alsatian, like some German dialects, has lenited all obstruents but. Its lenes are, however, voiceless as in all Southern German varieties. Therefore, they are here transcribed, ,.

The phoneme has a velar allophone  after back vowels (,, , and  in those speakers who do not pronounce this as ), and palatal  elsewhere. In southern dialects, there is a tendency to pronounce it in all positions, and in Strasbourg the palatal allophone tends to conflate with the phoneme.

Vowels
Short vowels: ( in Strasbourg),.

Long vowels: