EURPhon: Upper Saxon (Chemnitz)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Germanic

Lat/lon: 50.827845, 12.921369

ISO code: sxu

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	glottal
stop	p		t̪			k, kʰ
fricative		f	s̪	ʃ			ʁ̞	h
nasal	m		n̪			ŋ
approximant		ʋ			j
lateral approximant			l̪

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
near-close	ɪ
close-mid		ɵ
open-mid	ɛ	ɞ	ʌ

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː	ʉː
close-mid	eː	ɵː
open-mid	ɛː		ʌː

Long pharyngealised series

	central	back
near-close		ʊˤː
close-mid		oˤː
open-mid		ʌˤː, ɔˤː
open	aˤː

Short pharyngealised series

	back
close-mid	oˤ

Diphthongs

/ɞʏ̯/, /ae̯/, /aɵ̯/

Source: Khan, Sameer ud Dowla and Constanze Weise. 2013. Upper Saxon (Chemnitz dialect). In: Journal of the International Phonetic Association 43, 231–241.

Comments: [χ] is an allophone of [h] ([h] occurs as the onset of stressed syllables and word-initially while [χ] occurs elsewhere). Short non-pharyngealized vowels optionally reduce to [ə]. /ʁ̞/ is optionally realized as [ʁ], [ʁ̥], [ʀ̥] or [q]. Final nasals and laterals can be produced as syllabic ([m̩, n̩, ŋ, l̩]) following a stop or fricative. /aˤː, ʌˤː, ʊˤː oˤː, ɔˤː, oˤ/ can realized as [ɛːɒ̯ˤ, ɪːɒ̯ˤ, ʊːɒ̯ˤ, oːɒ̯ˤ, ɔːɒ̯ˤ] in careful speech (especially if speakers are fluent in Standard German). /oˤ/ is optionally realized as [ɵˤ], [əˤ], [ʁ̩] or [əʁ̞]. /yː/, /ʏ/, /øː/ and /œ/ might be occasionally found in the speech of speakers fluent in Standard German.