This article aims to describe the phonology and phonetics of central Luxembourgish, which is regarded as the emerging standard.
Consonants[]
The consonant inventory of Luxembourgish is quite similar to that of Standard German.
| Labial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | fortis | p | t | k | ||
| lenis | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Affricate | fortis | (pf) | ts | tʃ | ||
| lenis | (dz) | (dʒ) | ||||
| Fricative | fortis | f | s | ʃ | χ | h |
| lenis | v | z | ʒ | ʁ | ||
| Approximant | j | |||||
| Liquid | l | ʀ | ||||
Vowels[]
Monophthongs[]
The monophthongs of Luxembourgish are as follows:
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | |||
| Close | i | iː | y | yː | u | uː | ||
| Mid | close | eː | øː | oː | ||||
| open | e | œ | œː | o | ||||
| Open | æ | ɐ | ɑ | aː | ||||
| Nasal | ɛ̃ː | õː ɑ̃ː | ||||||