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==Vowels== | ==Vowels== | ||
There are 7 vocalic phonemes. | ==Vowels== | ||
There are 7 vocalic phonemes, which display other forms of distinction: | |||
5 vowels have a '''short''' form and a '''long''' form. The mid-central phoneme, [ə], and the open-mid front phoneme, [ɛ], make no length distinction. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|- style=max-width:4em | |- style=max-width:4em | ||
| colspan=" | | colspan="6" | <center>''IPA''</center> || colspan="6" | <center>''Transcription''</center> | ||
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| style="width: 30px;"| <center>[i]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| <center>[u]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>i</center> || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| <center>u</center> | | style="width: 30px;"| <center>[i]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>[iː]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| <center>[u]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>[uː]</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>i</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>ī</center> || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| || style="width: 30px;"| <center>u</center> || style="width: 30px;"| <center>ū</center> | ||
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| <center>[e]</center> || || || || <center>[o]</center> || <center>e</center> || || || || <center>o</center> | | <center>[e]</center> || <center>[eː]</center> || || || <center>[o]</center> || <center>[oː]</center> || <center>e</center> || <center>ē</center> || || || <center>o</center> || <center>ō</center> | ||
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| || || <center>[ə]</center> || || || || || <center>ə</center> || || | | || || colspan="2" | <center>[ə]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ə</center> || || | ||
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| || <center>[ɛ]</center> || || || || || || <center>ɛ</center> || || || || | |||
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| || || <center>[a]</center> || || || || || <center>a</center> || || | | || || <center>[a]</center> || <center>[a]</center> || || || || || <center>a</center> || <center>ā</center> || || | ||
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Revision as of 09:53, 11 May 2025
Vowels
Vowels
There are 7 vocalic phonemes, which display other forms of distinction:
5 vowels have a short form and a long form. The mid-central phoneme, [ə], and the open-mid front phoneme, [ɛ], make no length distinction.
