Proto-Germanic/Pronunciation

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Consonants

 * In some positions, voiced stops, , and are pronounced as , , and  instead:
 * in intervocalic positions;
 * in word-initial positions in the case of ; and
 * sometimes after in the case of , varying with its stop allophone.
 * before velar stops and  (both of which can be labialized) is pronounced as.