Editing Bavarian language (section)

==Phonology==

===Consonants===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]
!|[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br />alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! {{left}} [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA|m}}
| {{IPA|n}}
|
| 
| {{IPA|ŋ}}
|
|-
! {{left}} [[Stop consonant|Stop]]
| {{IPA|p}} {{IPA|b}}
| {{IPA|t}} {{IPA|d}}
| 
|
| {{IPA|k}} {{IPA|ɡ}}
| ({{IPA|ʔ}})
|-
! {{left}} [[Affricate]]
| {{IPA|p͡f}}
| {{IPA|t͡s}}
| {{IPA|t͡ʃ}}
| 
|
| 
|-
! {{left}} [[Fricative]]
| {{IPA|f}} {{IPA|v}}
| {{IPA|s}}
| {{IPA|ʃ}}
| ({{IPA|ç}})
| {{IPA|x}}
| {{IPA|h}}
|-
! {{left}} [[Trill consonant|Trill]]
|
| {{IPA|r}}
|
|
|
|
|-
! {{left}} [[Approximant]]
| 
| {{IPA|l}}
|
| {{IPA|j}}
|
|
|}

Notes:

*Aspiration may occur among voiceless plosives in word-initial position.
*The phoneme {{IPA|/h/}} is frequently realised as {{IPAblink|ç}} or {{IPAblink|x}} word-internally and is realised as {{IPAblink|h}} word-initially.
*Intervocalic {{IPA|/s/}} can be voiced to {{IPAblink|z}}, unless it is ''fortis'' (lengthened), such as in {{IPA|/hɔasːn/}} 'to be named', compared to {{IPA|/rɔasn/}} 'to travel', where the sibilant is ''lenis''.
*A trill sound {{IPA|/r/}} may also be realised as a [[Tap and flap consonants|flap]] [{{IPA link|ɾ}}].
*Intervocalic {{IPA|/v/}} can be realised as [{{IPA link|ʋ}}] or [{{IPA link|β}}, {{IPA link|w}}].
*Some dialects, such as the Bavarian dialect in South Tyrol, realise {{IPA|/k/}} as an affricate {{IPAblink|k͡x}} word-initially and before {{IPA|/m, n, l, r/}}, which is an extension of the [[High German consonant shift]] to velar consonants.

===Vowels===
Vowel phonemes in parentheses occur only in certain Bavarian dialects or only appear as allophones or in diphthongs. Nasalization may also be distinguished in some dialects.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | [[Front vowel|Front]]
! rowspan="2" | [[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[[Back vowel|Back]]
|- class="small"
! [[Roundedness|<small>unrounded</small>]]
! [[Roundedness|<small>rounded</small>]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|{{IPA|i}}
|{{IPA|y}}
| 
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|u}}
|-
![[Near-close vowel|Near-close]]
|{{IPA|ɪ}}
|{{IPA|ʏ}}
|
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ʊ}}
|-
! [[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
|{{IPA|e}}
|{{IPA|ø}}
| ({{IPA|ə}})
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|o}}
|-
! [[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
|{{IPA|ɛ}}
|{{IPA|œ}}
|({{IPA|ɐ}})
| colspan="2" |{{IPA|ɔ}}
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|({{IPA|æ}})
| ({{IPA|ɶ}})
|{{IPA|a}}
|({{IPA|ɑ}})
|{{IPA|ɒ}}
|}

Bavarian has an extensive [[vowel]] inventory, like most Germanic languages. Vowels can be grouped as back rounded, front unrounded and front rounded. They are also traditionally distinguished by [[vowel length|length]] or [[tenseness]].