Barcino. Monographica Orientalia 22 Series Anatolica et Indogermanica 4 (2023) (ISBN: 978-84-9168-937-9) 115 New interpretations in Lydian phonology Alwin Kloekhorst Leiden University § 1. Introduction In the last few years several interesting new proposals regarding the analysis of the Lydian language have appeared, including new interpretations of entire in- scriptions (e.g. Sasseville and Payne 2016; Yakubovich 2017), of individual words and their etymologies (e.g. Sasseville 2018; eDiAna), of morphological categories (e.g. Sasseville 2017, Yakubovich 2019a), and of Lydian historical phonology (e.g. Sasseville 2021a; Oettinger 2021). In this paper I want to add some new proposals regarding the analysis of the synchronic phonology of Lydian, with regard to both its vowel system and its consonant system. 1 § 2. The Lydian vowel system The Lydian alphabetic script knows eight graphemes that are generally inter- preted as denoting vowels: <a>, <e>, <i>, <o>, <u>, <y>, <ã>, and < >. Of these, the grapheme y is marginally used, being found only a few times in words that are otherwise spelled with i (e.g. once artymuk (LW 4b: 5), with y, in- stead of 20x artimu- i, cf. Gusmani 1964: 30). It is therefore gener- ally seen as an allograph or a possibly unaccented allophone of i (e.g. Melchert 1994: 342 343), and can therefore be left out of consideration here. All other 1. I would like to thank David Sasseville and Ilya Yakubovich for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.