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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
The vowel inventory of Weyon differs significantly from dialect to dialect. | The vowel inventory of Weyon differs significantly from dialect to dialect. The North Weyon dialects underwent [[w:I-mutation|vowel mutation]], which increased the amount of phonemes, compared to South Weyon, which instead had the southern vowel shift. Thus vowels in cognates can vary greatly between various dialects, for example: the word for "horse" is ''ilor'' in Imára, ''eloor'' in Wealla, ''eliir'' or ''äliir'' in Renta and ''yalin'' in Últaun. | ||
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!rowspan="3"| North Weyon | |||
!colspan="4"| Front | |||
!colspan="2"| Back | |||
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!colspan="4"| Unrounded | |||
!colspan="2"| Rounded | |||
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!Short | |||
!Long | |||
!Short | |||
!Long | |||
!Short | |||
!Long | |||
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! Close | |||
| i [ɪ] | |||
| ii [iː] | |||
| ü [ʏ] | |||
| üü [yː] | |||
| u [ʊ] | |||
| ū [uː] | |||
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! Mid | |||
| e [e~ɛ] | |||
| ee [eː] | |||
| ö [ø~œ] | |||
| öö [øː] | |||
| o [ɔ] | |||
| oo [oː] | |||
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! Open | |||
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| ää [æɪ~æː] | |||
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| a [ɑ] | |||
| aa [aː] | |||
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|} | |||
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |||
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!rowspan="2"| South Weyon | |||
!colspan="2"| Front | |||
!colspan="2"| Back | |||
|- | |||
!Short | |||
!Long | |||
!Short | |||
!Long | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| i [i] | |||
|ii [iː] | |||
| u [u] | |||
| uu [uː] | |||
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! Mid | |||
| e [e] | |||
| ee [eː] | |||
| o [o] | |||
| oo [oː] | |||
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! Open | |||
| ä [æ]* | |||
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| a [ɑ] | |||
| aa [aː] | |||
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*The phoneme ä [æ] is only found in a few dialects on the Renta-Últaun border. | |||
[[Category:Languages]] [[Category:Settameric languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] [[Category:Settameric languages]] | ||