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===Forging a phonology===
===Forging a phonology===
Proto-Indo-European is commonly accepted to have had the following vowel and consonant inventory
Proto-Indo-European is commonly accepted to have had the following vowel and consonant inventory with some minor disagreements on the phonemicity of *a


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|+ '''PIE vowels'''
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! colspan=1| [[w:Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan=1| [[w:Back vowel|Back]]
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! [[w:Close vowel|Close]]
| *{{PIE|i}}
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! [[w:Mid vowel|Mid]]
| *{{PIE|e}} *{{PIE|ē}}
| *{{PIE|o}} *{{PIE|ō}}
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! [[w:Open vowel|Open]]
| a* ā*
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