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Five vowels: '''a, e, i, o, u''' with long doublets '''aa, ee, ii, oo, uu'''.
Five vowels: '''a, e, i, o, u''' with long doublets '''aa, ee, ii, oo, uu'''.


Vowels can have a rising tone, indicated by the acute accent.
====Tone====
Syllables can take one of three tones: rising, falling, plain or mid, indicated respectively by the acute, the grave and no accent.  
 
{| class="wikitable"
! Plain
! Rising
! Falling
|-
| ḡaaj
| ḡááj
| ḡààj
|-
| [k’āːj]
| [k’ǎːj]
| [k’âːj]
|-
| "rock"
| "who"
| "elk"
|}


===Phonotactics===
===Phonotactics===
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