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Vowels

There are 6 vocalic phonemes, which display other forms of distinction:

IPA			Transcription
[i]		[u]	i		u
[e]		[o]	e		o
		[ə]			ə
		[a]			a

5 vowels are framed in a complex tonal system. Conversely the mid-central phoneme, [ə], makes no distinction in tone.

The tonal system is thoroughly described below.