Wiktionary:Plautdietsch entry guidelines

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This page is a (stub of a) draft guideline for handling entries in the Mennonite Low German lect known as Plautdietsch.

For an overview of all the lects called "Low German" or "Low Saxon", an information on those names, see Wiktionary:Low German entry guidelines.

Plautdietsch is represented on Wiktionary by the code pdt.

Plautdietsch nouns are normally capitalized, like (German) Low German nouns, and unlike Dutch Low Saxon nouns.

Key to pronunciation

Here follows an incomplete guide to the general pronunciation of various vowels and consonants:

A /a/, unstressed word-finally: /ə/~/ʌ/
Ä /e/
AA /ɛa/
AU /ɔu/
E /ɛ/, unstressed: /ə/
EE /əɪ/
EU /ɛy/, /ɛʊ/
I /i/, /ɪ/
IE /i/
O /o/, /ɔ/
OA /ɔa/
OO /əʊ/
U /y/, /ʊ/

J /j/

B /b/
CH /χ/, /ç/, at the beginning of some morphemes: /k/
D /d/
F /f/
G /ɡ/~/ɣ/
H /h/
K /k/
KJ /c/
L /l/
M /m/
N /n/
ND /nd/
NK /ŋk/
NKJ /ɲc/
P /p/
PF /pf/
R /ɹ/~/ɾ/~/r/
S initially: /z/, elsewhere: /s/ (as in High German)
SCH /ʃ/
SP- morpheme-initially: /ʃp/ (syllable-finally /sp/)
ST- morpheme-initially: /ʃt/ (syllable-finally: /st/)
T /t/
V /f/
W /v/
Z /ts/