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Title: A Middle High German Primer
Third Edition

Author: Joseph Wright

Release Date: September 16, 2007 [EBook #22636]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[e] [i] [o] [u] (same for e, i, o, u)
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[)a] [)e] [)i] [)o]
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