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! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ||
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! | ! Close | ||
| i /i/ ü /ü/ || || u /u/ | | i /i/ ü /ü/ || || u /u/ | ||
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! Open | ! Open | ||
|| a /a/ || || | || a /a/ || || | ||
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All vowels shared a closed quality and could be combined quite freely into combinations of two vowels which did not form a single syllable, thus dipthongs were unknown in the proto-language. | |||
Over time this inventory underwent several changes. The first of those changes was that almost all highly articulated vowels were lowered when they occured in an open syllable. Later, this process took also place in closed syllables which had single vowels. Combinations of two vowels remained higher or kept a higher pronounciation. This devision broadened the vowel inventory: | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
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! !! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i /i/ ü /ü/ || || u /u/ | |||
|- | |||
! Near-close | |||
|| i /ɪ/ ü /ʏ/ || || u /ʊ/ | |||
|- | |||
! Close-mid | |||
|| e /e/ ö /ö/ || || o /o/ | |||
|- | |||
! Near-open | |||
|| ë /ɛ/ ô /œ/ || || o: /ɔ/ | |||
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! Near-open | |||
|| ä /æ/ || || | |||
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! Open | |||
|| || a /ä/ || | |||
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