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| D'Ivoire also re-analysed and standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language. | | D'Ivoire also re-analysed and standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language. |
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| Tsan has four main vowels, /a/, /i/, /u/ and /ɛ/. All vowels can be long, in which case they are written with an acute accent.
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| {| class="IPA" cellspacing="0px" cellpadding="0" style="text-align:center; background:none;" | | ! rowspan="2" style="width: 90px; "| |
| |- style="text-align:center; font-size:smaller;"
| | ! colspan="3" style="width: 90px; " |Oral |
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| | ! colspan="3" style="width: 90px; " |Nasal |
| | style="width: 60px;" | '''Front'''
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| | style="width: 60px; word-spacing: -.3em;" | '''Near- front'''
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| | style="width: 60px;" | '''Central'''
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| | style="width: 60px;word-spacing: -.3em;" | '''Near- back'''
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| | style="width: 60px;" | '''Back'''
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Close'''
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> |
| | style="height: 210px;" colspan=5 rowspan=7 | <div style="position: relative;">[[File:Blank vowel trapezoid.svg|300px|link=]]<div style="background:none; position:absolute; top:0; left:0;">
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> |
| {| style="position:relative; width:300px; height:210px; text-align:center; background:none;"
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>extra long</small> |
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small> |
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small> |
| | !style="width: 45px; "|<small>extra long</small> |
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| | style="width:300px; height:210px; text-align:center; background:none; font-size:120%;"|
| | ! style="" |''i'' |
| | | | '''i''' /i/ |
| <!-- CLOSE VOWELS -->
| | | '''í''' /iɨ̯/ |
| <div style="position: absolute; left: 9%; width: 1em; top: 2%; background: white;">i</div>
| | | '''íi''' /i:ɨ̯/ |
| <div style="position: absolute; left: 85%; width: 1.2em; top: 2%; background: white;">u</div>
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| <!-- NEAR-CLOSE VOWELS -->
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| <!-- CLOSE-MID VOWELS -->
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| <!-- <div style="position: absolute; left: 18%; width: 1.3em; top: 30%; background: white;">ø</div> -->
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| <!-- <div style="position: absolute; left: 84%; width: 2.7em; top: 30%; background: white;">ɤ · o</div> -->
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| <!-- MID VOWELS -->
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| <!-- OPEN-MID VOWELS -->
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| <div style="position: absolute; left: 30%; width: 2.5em; top: 58%; background: white;">ɛ</div>
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| <!-- NEAR-OPEN VOWELS -->
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| <!-- OPEN VOWELS -->
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| <div style="position: absolute; left: 66%; width: 1em; top: 86%; background: white;">a</div>
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Near-close''' | |
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Close-mid'''
| | ! style="" |''e'' |
| | | '''e''' /e̞/ |
| | | '''é''' /e̞ə̯/ |
| | | '''ée''' /e̞ːə̯/ |
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Mid'''
| | ! style="" |''a'' |
| | | '''a''' /a/ |
| | | '''á''' /aː/ |
| | | '''áa''' /aː/ |
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Open-mid'''
| | ! style="" |''u'' |
| | |'''u''' /u/ |
| | |'''ú''' /uw/ |
| | |'''úu''' /uːw/ |
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Near-open'''
| | ! style="" |''o'' |
| | | '''o''' /o̞/ |
| | | '''ó''' /o̞ɰʷ/ |
| | | '''óo''' /o̞ːɰʷ/ |
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| | style="height: 30px; font-size: smaller; text-align: right;" | '''Open'''
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| <div style="font-size: smaller; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0.33em">''Where symbols appear in pairs, the one to the right represents a rounded vowel.</div>
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| ===Diphthongs=== | | ===Diphthongs=== |