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D'Ivoire standardised the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language. He divided the four primary vowels into four categories by length; granting ''short'', ''long'', ''diphthong'' and ''long diphthong'' vowels. It is important to note that in the modern language, the so called diphthongs are not realised as diphthongs at all, but rather a closed VC syllable.  

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====Debuccalisation of nasal stops====

::''In the old language, vowels preceding nasals were mandatorily nasalised, which influencing their modern articulation in manners close to what occurs in French.''

D'Ivoire did indeed standardise the phonemic inventory of vowels in the language, but he did also supply a more detailed transcription of how the velar approximant and the debuccalisation of nasal stops affected the articulation of vowels. He divided the four primary vowels into another two categories, ''nasal'' and ''oral''.

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! colspan="9" | Orthography and vowels

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! colspan="4" style="width: 90px; " |Oral

! colspan="4" style="width: 90px; " |Nasal

!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long diphthong</small>

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| '''i''' [i]

| '''ii''' [i:]

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| '''a''' [a]

| '''aa''' [aː]

| '''áan''' · '''áam''' [aːŋ]

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|'''u''' [u]

|'''uu''' [uː]

|'''úun''' · '''úum''' [uːm]

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| '''o''' [o̞]

| '''oo''' [o̞ː]