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Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from historic short nasal, while long nasals have effectively been shortened, and may still phonetically nasalize the preceding vowel.
Nasal vowels tend to be longer than their non-nasal counterparts, and derive from historic short nasal, while long nasals have effectively been shortened, and may still phonetically nasalize the preceding vowel.
The open-mid central vowel is the most variable vowel cross-dialectally, with various dialects pronouncing it as any of [ɘ ə ɵ ɜ ɐ ɞ]; this may also depend on its surroundings. For example, Soleya Hatzonian pronounces it normally as [ɜ], but rounds it to [ɞ] before labial and labialized consonants.


===Prosody===
===Prosody===
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