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 ===Vowels===
+====Monophthongs====
 Dravenian has 13 phonemic vowels including some unusual sounds for a Slavic language like /y/ and /œ/.
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 | a || a</br>a || </br>oa
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+====Allophony====
+Dravenian vowels in unreduced pretonic syllables are sometimes pronounced slightly different to stress bearing syllables.
+The sound y is pronounced [y(:)] is stress bearing syllables, but as [i] in pre tonic position. Speaker with stronger German influence usually pronounce the y as [y] in this position.
+The sound ö is pronounced as [œ(:)] in stressed syllables but as [] in pretonic syllables. Speakers with strong German influence in their pronounciation tend to neglect this and pronounce the sound ö as [œ] in all position.
+The sound ė is pronounced as [e(:)] in stressed syllables and as [i] in pretonic syllables.
+The sound oa can be pronounced as either [] or []
+The nasal vowels ą and o are pronounced as [ã] and [õ~ũ] in open syllables. In closed syllables the nasal are pronounced as [a] and [u] plus an homoorganic vowel.
+====Diphtongs====
+{| clas="wikitable"
+|+ Diphtongs
+|ei</br>ei~ai
+|oi
+|au
+|}
+A fourth diphtong occur in some dialects, where the outcome of Proto Slavic *l is [ou] rather than [ul].
+wulk [vouk]
 ===Prosody===