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All vowels come in both long and short variants. Long vowels are written with a circumflex (â, ê, î, ô, û). The length distinction is phonemic, e.g. indicative ''azbâzún'' (‘I write’) versus optative ''azbazún'' (‘That I may write’) | All vowels come in both long and short variants. Long vowels are written with a circumflex (â, ê, î, ô, û). The length distinction is phonemic, e.g. indicative ''azbâzún'' (‘I write’) versus optative ''azbazún'' (‘That I may write’). | ||
In some parts of the language there appears to be an opposition between front and back vowels. This “weak” vowel harmony is most prominent in the case-inflection of nouns. Surprisingly, the central open vowel /a/ often agrees with the back vowels. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||