| 1. | When followed by front vowels the Germanic changed to a sound.
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| 2. | Velars ( are restricted to appearing everywhere except before front vowels.
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| 3. | Dental stops and become and respectively before high front vowels.
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| 4. | All other consonants have palatalized allophones before the front vowels as well.
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| 5. | In Southern Lisu, the velar plosives become alveopalatal before front vowels.
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| 6. | Stops are palatalized before the front vowel and not palatalized in other cases.
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| 7. | Velar consonants and preceding front vowels or are palatalized as and, respectively.
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| 8. | Non-phonemic palatalization generally occurs before front vowels.
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| 9. | Back vowels have low F2 frequencies, while front vowels have high F2 frequencies.
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| 10. | For one, there are two front vowels that lack back counterparts : and.
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