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The nasal vowels /ĩ ỹ ũ ẽ ø̃ ə̃ õ ɛ̃ œ̃ ã ɔ̃/ arose from historical V + /l/ sequences. In acrolectal accents and careful speech, they are pharyngealized: [ĩˤ ỹˤ ũˤ ẽˤ ø̃ˤ ʌ̃ˤ õˤ ɛ̃ˤ œ̃ˤ ãˤ ɔ̃ˤ]. In many accents nasal vowels may also be diphthongized (say, /ĩˤ ỹˤ ẽˤ ø̃ˤ ə̃ˤ ɛ̃ˤ ãˤ/ = [iw̃ yw̃ ew̃ øw̃ əw̃ ɛw̃ œw̃]). Some "non-lambdic" accents realize them as long vowels (with no nasalization) - these accents may have 'intrusive L' analogous to intrusive R in non-rhotic English accents. A handful of remote dialects pronounce them as pharyngealized vowels or vowels followed by [ɫ].