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 * oe [u:].
-A diaeresis divides two vowels that, otherwise, would form a diphthong, ex.: ''ïe'' [‘ie], "they"; ''zoüüt'' [zo'y:t], "greeting". The diphthongs, the false diphthongs and the letter ''ij'' (that really indicates the same diphthong as ''ei'') are always long in Aarlaansk, while the letters ''i'' and ''y'' are always short. The letters ''a'', ''e'', ''o'', and ''u'' can be both short and long, instead. To indicate the vowel length of these four vowels, this language uses a special system that is based on the kind of syllables.
+A diaeresis divides two vowels that, otherwise, would form a diphthong, ex.: ''ïe'' [‘ie], "they"; ''zöuut'' [zo'y:t], "greeting". The diphthongs, the false diphthongs and the letter ''ij'' (that really indicates the same diphthong as ''ei'') are always long in Aarlaansk, while the letter ''i'' is always short. The letters ''a'', ''e'', ''o'', and ''u'' can be both short and long, instead. To indicate the vowel length of these four vowels, this language uses a special system that is based on the kind of syllables.
 There are two kind of syllables: they can be both open and closed. A syllable is open when it ends with a vowel (so ''ma'', ''te'', ''ko'', ''su'' are all open syllables); a syllable is closed when it ends with a consonant (so ''mat'', ''tek'', ''kos'', ''sum'' are all closed syllables).