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Five vowels: '''a, e, i, o, u''' with long doublets '''aa, ee, ii, oo, uu'''. | Five vowels: '''a, e, i, o, u''' with long doublets '''aa, ee, ii, oo, uu'''. | ||
====Tone==== | |||
Syllables can take one of three tones: rising, falling, plain or mid, indicated respectively by the acute, the grave and no accent. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! Plain | |||
! Rising | |||
! Falling | |||
|- | |||
| ḡaaj | |||
| ḡááj | |||
| ḡààj | |||
|- | |||
| [k’āːj] | |||
| [k’ǎːj] | |||
| [k’âːj] | |||
|- | |||
| "rock" | |||
| "who" | |||
| "elk" | |||
|} | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== |