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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Common Minervan has a total of 8 vowels. It has 4 vowel qualities. According to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Structures this is a small vowel quality inventory. Common Minervan has a consonant to vowel quality ratio of | Common Minervan has a total of 8 vowels. It has 4 vowel qualities. According to the World Atlas of Lanɡuaɡe Structures this is a small vowel quality inventory. Common Minervan has a consonant to vowel quality ratio of 3.25 which according to WALS is an average ratio. Common Minervan is typologically very unusual in lacking a low vowel such as /a/. Only 2% of Terran languages have this trait and it is just as rare on Minerva. The diphthongs are phonologically long vowels. The vowels are displayed in the table below: | ||
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