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marking of umlauted vowels is often absent or inconsistent in the manuscripts.
*a curly-tailed z ( or ) is used in modern handbooks and grammars to indicate the or -like sound which arose from Germanic in the High German consonant shift. This character has no counterpart in the original manuscripts, which typically use or to indicate this sound.
*the original texts often use and for the semi-vowels

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