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/p, t, k, f, s, ʃ, χ/ may be voiced between sonorants.
Word-final /p, t, k/ are sometimes voiced to .
Word-initially, the /t–k/ contrast is neutralized before /l/, which means that e.g. the word Kleid ('dress') can be pronounced as either or .
When a stop or fricative precedes, the sequences /əm, ən, əŋ, əl/ can be realized as syllabic consonants . The nasals appear depending on the place of articulation of the preceding consonant, so that it can be bilabial , dental , velar or uvular [ɴ̩].
When another nasal precedes a syllabic nasal, such sequence is realized as a single consonant of variable length.
Non-phonemic glottal stop [ʔ] is inserted in two cases:
Before word-initial vowels, even the unstressed ones.
Before stressed syllable-initial vowels within words.
The pharyngealized vowels correspond to the sequences of vowel + /r/ in the standard language.
The non-native vowels are occasionally used in cognates of some Standard German words, such as brüder ('brothers'). In other cases, they are pronounced the same as /ɪ, iː, ɛ, eː/.
Unstressed short oral monophthongs may fall together as [ə].
/ʊˤː, oˤː, ʌˤː, ɔˤː, aˤː/ are often diphthongal in careful speech. Monophthongal realizations are optionally shortened in certain positions.
Monophthongs are somewhat retracted when they precede dorsals, except /j/. The retraction is strongest before /χ, ʁ/. To a certain extent, this is also true of monophthongs that follow dorsal consonants.
Monophthongs are allophonically pharyngealized if a vowel in the following syllable is pharyngealized.
The phonetic quality of the monophthongs is as follows:
/iː, ʉː, ɵ, ɵː, ʊˤː/ are close to the canonical values of the corresponding IPA symbols .
Eines Tages haben sich der Nordwind und die Sonne gezankt, wer von den beiden denn nun der Stärkere ist, als ein Wanderer mit einem warmen Mantel an, vorbeikam.
