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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I'm from Germany, so no native English speaker. Why does it still sound wrong in my ears? Is it the way we have to open the mouth to make those sounds, and it feels unnatural in a different order?
Schwip Schwap. In fact, ablaut is a German word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_ablaut
It's common to all Indo-European languages to some degree