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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
====Short vowels==== | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ! !! Front !! Central !! Back | ||
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/ə/ is a common unstressed allophone that can theoretically be used for any vowel, though it is mostly only used for /e/ when it precedes a semivowel like /w/ or /j/, such as in ''gan'''e'''u'' [gaɲəw], "pet food". | /ə/ is a common unstressed allophone that can theoretically be used for any vowel, though it is mostly only used for /e/ when it precedes a semivowel like /w/ or /j/, such as in ''gan'''e'''u'' [gaɲəw], "pet food". | ||
====Long vowels==== | |||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | |||
! !! Front !! Central !! Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| iː || || uː | |||
|- | |||
! Close-mid | |||
| eː || || | |||
|- | |||
! Open-mid | |||
| || || ɔː | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| || aː || | |||
|} | |||
In Sinat’, many speakers glottalise initial long vowels, simultaneously also shortening the vowel, such as in ''āyo'', "hey", which in Sinat’ would be pronounced [ʔajɔ], but in Standard Sinatolean as well as most other dialect groups would be pronounced as [aːjɔ]. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||