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===Vowels===
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align:center;"
|+ '''Vowel phonemes in Nurian'''
|+ '''Vowel phonemes in Nurian'''
! rowspan="2" style=""|
! rowspan="2" style=""|
! colspan="3" style="" |Front
! colspan="3" style="" |Front
! style="" |Central
! colspan="2" style="" |Central
! colspan="3" style="" |Back
! colspan="3" style="" |Back
|-
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!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
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|rowspan="2"|[ɛ~æ]
|rowspan="2"|[ɛ~æ]
|  
|  
| /ɛɚ/
| [ɛɚ]
| [ə]  
| [ə]  
| /ɚ/
| /ɔ/
| /ɔ/
| /oː/
| /oː/
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|  
|  
| /ɑː/
| /ɑː/
| /ɑɚ/
| [ɑɚ]
|}
|}


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*Short /ɪ/ is lowered to [ɪ̞] after hard consonants.
*Short /ɪ/ is lowered to [ɪ̞] after hard consonants.
*'''ia''' and '''e''' both represent [ɛ], the allophone of /ɐ/ after palatalized consonants.
*'''ia''' and '''e''' both represent [ɛ], the allophone of /ɐ/ after palatalized consonants
*/ɚ/ has three allophones:
**[ɚ] after a hard consonant (in or before a stressed syllable)
**[ɚ] after a soft consonant (in or before a stressed syllable)
**[ɚ] in posttonic positions
*[ə] occurs as an epenthetic vowel after word-final geminates except before another vowel.
*[ə] occurs as an epenthetic vowel after word-final geminates except before another vowel.


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