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Vowels

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

5 vowels have a short form and a long form. The open-central phoneme, [æ], makes no distinction in length.

IPA						Transcription
[i]	[iː]			[u]	[uː]	i	iː			u	uː
[e]	[eː]			[o]	[oː]	e	eː			o	oː
		[æ]						æ
		[a]	[aː]					a	aː

The vocalic system is typologically simple and essentially balanced, except for the open-central phoneme, [æ].

All long vowels have an additional tonal feature, being every of them pronounced with an ascending tone. This feature, however, is not distinctive.