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! style="background: DarkSlateGrey; color: white;"| Vowels !! Front !! Central !! Back | ! style="background: DarkSlateGrey; color: white;"| Vowels !! Front !! Central !! Back | ||
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| Close || i || || u | | Close || i ī || || u ū | ||
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| Mid || || ə || | | Mid || || ə || | ||
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| Open|| e || || o | | Open|| e ē || || o ō | ||
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====Proto-Uralic==== | |||
Proto-Uralic has considerably more vowels (by quality, rather than quantity) than any other language described on this page. Uralic may have had consonant gradation processes. /x/ is an unknown in terms of phonation and role, and could likely be from the lenition of /k/ or like a PIE laryngeal. CVCCVC is the most complex clusters may be. Phonetic, but not phonemic, diphthongs can arise via -j or -w. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! style="background: DarkSlateGrey; color: white;"| Consonants !! Labial !! Dental !! Palatal !! Postalveolar !! Velar | |||
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! Plosives | |||
| p || t || (ć) || č || k | |||
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! Fricatives | |||
| || s ð || ś ð´ || (š) || x* | |||
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! Nasals | |||
| m || n || ń || || ŋ | |||
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! Liquids | |||
| w || l r || (ľ) j || | |||
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{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! style="background: DarkSlateGrey; color: white;"| Vowels !! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
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| Close || i ü || || ï u | |||
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| Mid || e || || (ë) o | |||
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| Open|| ä || || a (å) | |||
|} | |} | ||
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