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 ====Vowels====
-There is a three-way contrast between short, long and rhotic vowels. There is a considerable degree of allophony in low vowels.
+There is a three-way contrast between short, long vowels. There is a considerable degree of allophony in low vowels.
 {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align:center;"
 |+ '''Vowel phonemes (Dagȳne)'''
 ! rowspan="2" style=""|
-! colspan="3" style="" |Front
+! colspan="2" style="" |Front
-! colspan="2" style="" |Central
+! colspan="1" style="" |Central
-! colspan="3" style="" |Back
+! colspan="2" style="" |Back
 |-
 !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
 !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
-!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
 !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
-!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
 !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
 !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
-!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
 |-
 ! style="" |Close
 | /ɪ~ɪ̞/
 | /iː/
-| /e˞ː/
 |
-| [ɚ]
 | /ʊ/
 | /uː/
-| /ʊ˞ː/
 |-
 ! style="" |Open
 | [ɛ~æ]
 | [æː]
-| [æ˞ː]
 | /a/
-| /a˞ː/
 |
 | /aː/
-| [ɑ˞ː]
 |}
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 *Short /ɪ/ is lowered to [ɪ̞] after hard consonants.
-*/e˞ː/ has two allophones:
+*/a aːː/ each have three allophones:
-**[e˞ː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
+**[ɐ~ɑ ɑː] after non-radical hard consonants
-**[ɨ˞ː] after non-radical hard consonants
+**[ɛ~æ æː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
-*/a aː a˞ː/ each have three allophones:
-**[ɐ~ɑ ɑː ɑ˞ː] after non-radical hard consonants
-**[ɛ~æ æː æ˞ː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
-*Unstressed rhotic vowels have a tendency to reduce in colloquial speech: /ʲe˞ ʲæ˞/ > [ʲɚ], /ˠɑ˞ ˠe˞/ > [ˠɚ], /ɔ˞ ʊ˞/ > [o˞].
 ===Fiuschēra===