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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Front | |||
! Central | |||
! Back | |||
|- | |||
| Close | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | /i/ [ɪ] | |||
| | |||
| style="text-align:center;" | /u/ /ɔ/ | |||
|- | |||
| Mid | |||
| /e/ | |||
| [ə] | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | [o] | |||
|- | |||
| Open | |||
| | |||
| /a/ | |||
| style="text-align:right;" | [ɑ] | |||
|} | |||
* [ɪ], [o] and [ɑ] only occur when i, o and a are unstressed respectively. In some dialects of Naibas, [ʊ] occurs when u is unstressed. | |||
* When e is unstressed and right before a stress, some speakers pronounce [ɪ] and some [ə]. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||