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==== Contrasting Vowels ====
==== Contrasting Vowels ====


Brooding has a concept of contrasting vowels. These are pairs of vowels that are used in various grammatical operations. Some processes require you to take a vowel from a word and change it to its contrasting vowel. For example, if the vowel is ‘oo’, it changes to ‘o’. If it is ‘o’, it changes to ‘oo’.
Brooding has a concept of contrasting vowels.  
These are pairs of vowels that are used in various grammatical operations.  
Some processes require you to take a vowel from a word and change it to its contrasting vowel.  
For example, if the vowel is ‘oo’, it changes to ‘o’. If it is ‘o’, it changes to ‘oo’.


Here are the pairs of contrasting vowels:
Here are the pairs of contrasting vowels:


{| class="wikitable"
{| cellspacing=0 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
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|-
| '''aa'''||↔||'''a'''
! align="left"| Diphthongs:
|style="width:50px; height:50px; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"|  
|style="width:50px; background-color: #ccccff; border-top: solid 2px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''ai'''</big><br />/ai/
|style="width:50px; background-color: #ccccff; border-top: solid 2px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''au'''</big><br />/au/
|style="width:50px; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|-
|-
| '''ae'''||||'''e'''
! align="left"| High:
|style="height:50px; background-color: #ccffff; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 2px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''ee'''</big><br />/i/
|style="background-color: #ccffff; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''i'''</big><br />/ɪ/
|style="border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|style="background-color: #ffccff; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 2px #000000;"| <big>'''oo'''</big><br />/u/
|-
|-
| '''ee'''||||'''i'''
! align="left"| Mid-High:
|style="height:50px; background-color: #ccffcc; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 2px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''ae'''</big><br />/e/
|style="border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|style="border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|style="background-color: #ffccff; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 2px #000000;"| <big>'''o'''</big><br />/o/
|-
|-
| '''ai'''||||'''au'''
! align="left"| Mid-Low:
|style="height:50px; background-color: #ccffcc; border-left: solid 2px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''e'''</big><br />/ɛ/
|style="border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|style="background-color: #ffcccc; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''uh'''</big><br />/ʌ/
|style="background-color: #ffcccc; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 2px #000000;"| <big>'''aw'''</big><br />/ɔ/
|-
|-
| '''oo'''||||'''o'''
! align="left"| Low:
|-
|style="height:50px; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
| '''aw'''||↔||'''uh'''
|style="background-color: #ffffcc; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 2px #000000;"| <big>'''aa'''</big><br />/æ/
|style="background-color: #ffffcc; border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-bottom: solid 2px #000000; border-right: solid 1px #000000;"| <big>'''a'''</big><br />/ɑ/
|style="border-top: solid 1px #000000; border-left: solid 1px #000000;"| &nbsp;
|}
|}