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Vowel inventory | ===Vowel inventory=== | ||
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! !! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
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| Close || i/y || || u | |||
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| Mid-Close || e || || o | |||
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| Mid || || ə || | |||
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| Open || || || ɑ | |||
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Vowels come in both long and short varieties. They are typically identical in quality, but the long vowels are held for approximately twice the length of its short counterpart. Long vowels may only occur in stressed syllables. | |||
The vowels /a/ and /e/, when short, may reduce to a schwa [ə] in unstressed syllables in common speech. | |||
===Consonant inventory=== | |||
===Syllable structure=== | |||
===Stress=== | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||