Though not to the extent it had on vocabulary, it also had considerable effects in terms of phonology, such as contracted sounds or palatised sounds, the sound of the words beginning with r, the voicing of initial consonants, and allowance of hiatus (consecutive) vowels.
語彙ほどではないが、拗音や語頭ラ行音・語頭濁音・母音連続の許容等、音韻面で受けた影響も少なくない。