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| <center>[ɛ]</center> || <center>[œ]</center> || <center>[œː]</center> || || || || <center>ɛ</center> || <center>ɛ</center> || <center>[ö]</center> || <center>[ő]</center> || ||  
| <center>[ɛ]</center> || <center>[œ]</center> || <center>[œː]</center> || || || || <center>ɛ</center> || <center>[ö]</center> || <center>[ő]</center> || || ||  
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| colspan="2" | <center>[æ]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ä</center> || || ||
| colspan="2" | <center>[æ]</center> || || || || || colspan="2" | <center>ä</center> || || ||

Revision as of 02:56, 12 May 2025

Vowels

There are 9 vocalic phonemes, which display other forms of distinction:

IPA
Transcription
[i]
[iː]
[u]
[uː]
i
ī
u
ū
[ʏ]
ü
ō
[ɛ]
[œ]
[œː]
ɛ
[ö]
[ő]
[æ]
ä
[aː]
ā


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.