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Volapȕük nulíik has a quite large vowel inventory. Besides the quality of a vowel, the length of a vowel plays an important role as well. | Volapȕük nulíik has a quite large vowel inventory. Besides the quality of a vowel, the length of a vowel plays an important role as well. In the proto-language, the inventory was rather small: | ||
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| i /i/ ü /ü/ || || u /u/ | | i /i/ ü /ü/ || || u /u/ | ||
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! Close-mid | |||
|| e /e/ ö /ö/ || || o /o/ | || e /e/ ö /ö/ || || o /o/ | ||
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! Close-open | |||
|| ä /ɛ/ || || | || ä /ɛ/ || || | ||
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