('young man', Sp. , Cat. ), > ('to freeze', Sp. , Cat. ). Romance groups -lt-, -ct- result in , e.g. > ('done', Sp. , Cat. , Gal./Port. ), > ('many, much', Sp. , Cat. , Gal. , Port. ). Romance groups -x-, -ps-, scj- result in voiceless palatal fricative ix , e.g. > ('crippled', Sp. , Cat. ). Romance groups -lj-, -c'l-, -t'l- result in palatal lateral ll , e.g. > ('woman', Sp. , Cat. ), > ('needle', Sp. , Cat. ). Shared with Catalan and Spanish Open o, e from Romance result systematically in diphthongs , , e.g. > ('old woman', Sp. , Cat. , Pt. ). This includes before a palatal approximant, e.g. > ('eight', Sp. , Cat. , Pt. oito). Spanish diphthongizes except before yod, whereas Catalan only diphthongizes before yod. Voiced stops may be lenited to approximants . Shared with Spanish Loss of final unstressed -e but not -o, e.g. > ('big'), > ('done'). Catalan loses both -e and -o (Cat. , ); Spanish preserves -o and sometimes -e (Sp. , ~ ). Former voiced sibilants become voiceless (, ). The palatal is most often realized as a fricative . Shared with neither Latin -b- is maintained in past imperfect endings of verbs of the second and third conjugations: ('he had', Sp. , Cat. ), ('he was sleeping', Sp. , Cat. ). High Aragonese dialects () and some dialects of Gascon have preserved the voicelessness of many intervocalic stop consonants, e.g. > ('sheep hurdle', Cat. , Fr. ), > ('crested lark', Sp. , Cat. ). Several Aragonese dialects maintain Latin -ll- as geminate . The mid vowels can be as open as , mainly in the Benasque dialect. No native word can begin with an , a trait shared with Gascon and Basque. Vowels Consonants Orthography In 2010, the Academia de l'Aragonés (founded in 2006) established an orthographic standard to modernize medieval orthography and to make it more etymological. The new orthography is used by the Aragonese Wikipedia. Aragonese had two orthographic standards: The , codified in 1987 by the Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa (CFA) at a convention in Huesca, is used by most Aragonese writers. It has a more uniform system of assigning letters to phonemes, with less regard for etymology; words traditionally written with and are uniformly written with in the Uesca system. Similarly, , , and before and are all written .