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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
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! !! front !! central !! back | |||
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! close | |||
| '''i''' || || '''u''' | |||
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! open mid | |||
| '''e''' || || '''o''' | |||
|- align=center | |||
! low | |||
| || '''a''' || | |||
|} | |||
The true values of the vowels /a e i o u/ tend to be closer to [ä ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ] although, for simplicity's sake, they tend to be transcribed with <a e i o u> even in narrow phonetic transcription. Each vowel has a fairly wide allophonic range and the cardinal [a e i o u] values fall within these ranges. | |||
The high vowels /i u/ have non-syllabic allophones, [i̯~j] and [u̯~w] respectively. These appear when these vowels are unstressed and following another vowel. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||