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| '''ó''' /o/<br>'''ò''' /oə/ | | '''ó''' /o/<br>'''ò''' /oə/ | ||
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| '''û''' /ə/ | |||
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! Low-mid | ! Low-mid | ||
| '''e''' /ɛ/ | | '''e''' /ɛ/ | ||
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| '''o''' /ɔ/ | | '''o''' /ɔ/ | ||
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! Low | ! Low | ||
| '''a''' /a/ | | '''a''' /a/<br>('''ai''' /ai/)<br>('''au''' /au/) | ||
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| '''â''' /ɑ/<br>('''ấ''' /ɑə/) | | '''â''' /ɑ/<br>('''ấ''' /ɑə/) | ||
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* The distinction between /ɑ/ and /ɑə/ is a remnant of the historical vowel length distinction in [[Old Zoki]]; vowel shifts since the Old Zoki period have diphthongized most instances of the historical long vowels, while the short vowels have altered in quality. However, in the case of short and long historical */ɔ/, most speakers have merged them to /ɑ/; the diphthongization of historical long */ɔ/ to /ɑə/ is now considered a dying feature. | * The distinction between /ɑ/ and /ɑə/ is a remnant of the historical vowel length distinction in [[Old Zoki]]; vowel shifts since the Old Zoki period have diphthongized most instances of the historical long vowels, while the short vowels have altered in quality. However, in the case of short and long historical */ɔ/, most speakers have merged them to /ɑ/; the diphthongization of historical long */ɔ/ to /ɑə/ is now considered a dying feature. | ||
* The diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ do not occur in native Zoki words except for a few interjections and onomatopoeic terms, such as ''hai'' ("haha") and ''hau'' ("ouch"). They occur in some loanwords, but speakers, especially less educated ones, often pronounce them variously as bisyllabic ''a-i'' and ''a-u'', as monophthongal ''a'', or as monophthongal ''i'' and ''u''. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||