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Where does the umlaut actually come from? i-umlaut, primary umlaut, secondary umlaut, morphological umlaut, analogical umlaut - simply explained! 00:00 Introduction 00:17 Umlaut in Old High German 01:35 Easier to pronounce 02:19 Primary umlaut 02:27 Secondary umlaut 03:14 Spelling ≠ pronunciation 03:49 Weakening of secondary syllables 04:28 Morphological/analogical umlaut 05:38 And where do the dots come from? 06:08 one or more birds Sources: Braune, Wilhelm/Heidermanns, Frank (2023): Old High German Grammar I: Phonology and Morphology. 17th edition. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 83 f. Ebert, Robert P./Reichmann, Oskar/Solms, Hans-Joachim/Wegera, Klaus-Peter (1993): Early New High German Grammar. Berlin/Boston: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 165. Rinas, Karsten (2021): Trema. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science (WSK) Online. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/database/WS... Paul, Hermann (2007): Middle High German Grammar. 25th edition. Revised by Thomas Klein, Hans-Joachim Solms, Klaus-Peter Wegera. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 71 f. Szczepaniak, Renata (2016): morphological umlaut. In S. Schierholz & L. Giacomini (Ed.), Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science (WSK) Online. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. https://www.degruyter.com/database/WS... IPA: https://www.internationalphoneticasso... Manuscript: https://handschriftencensus.de/6441 https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10638/ #language #german #germanlanguage #german #learngerman #germanistik #linguistik #sprachwissenschaft #sprachgeschichte #funfacts #funfact #history #grammar #english #germangrammar