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The next big change in the inventory was the lengthening of short vowels which occur in main-stressed syllables of the stem. Vowels of inflectional suffixes do not undergo this shift. Due to this change in pronounciation, the opposition between short and long vowels is established. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
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! !! Front short !! Front long !! Central short !! Central long !! Back short !! Back long | |||
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! Close | |||
| i /i/ ü /ü/ || || || || u /u/ || | |||
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! Near-close | |||
|| î /ɪ/ û /ʏ/ || îî /ɪ:/ ûû /ʏ:/ || || || u: /ʊ/ || uu: /ʊ:/ | |||
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! Close-mid | |||
|| e /e/ ö /ö/ || || o /o/ | |||
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! Near-open | |||
|| ë /ɛ/ ô /œ/ || ëë /ɛ:/ ôô /œ/|| || || o: /ɔ/ || oo: /ɔ:/ | |||
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! Near-open | |||
|| ä /æ/ || ää /æ:/ || || || || | |||
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! Open | |||
|| || a /ä/ || aa /ä:/ || || || || || | |||
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