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| || <center>[ | | <center>[ɛ]</center> || <center>[œ]</center> || <center>[œː]</center> || || || || <center>ɛ</center> || <center>ɛ</center> || <center>[ö]</center> || <center>[ő]</center> || || | ||
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| colspan="2" | <center>[æ]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ä</center> || || || | |||
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| || || colspan="2" | <center>[aː]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ā</center> || || | | || || colspan="2" | <center>[aː]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ā</center> || || | ||
Revision as of 02:55, 12 May 2025
Vowels
There are 9 vocalic phonemes, which display other forms of distinction:
3 vowels have a short form and a long form: [i] - [iː], [u] - [uː], and [œ] - [œː]. However, length is not deemed by the speakers as a distinctive feature of the same phoneme. These pairs are regarded as four fully independent phonemes, thus bringing the amount of distinguished vowels to 12.