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====Vowels====
====Vowels====
There is a three-way contrast between short, long and rhotic vowels. There is a considerable degree of allophony in low vowels.
There is a three-way contrast between short, long vowels. There is a considerable degree of allophony in low vowels.
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{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style=" text-align:center;"
|+ '''Vowel phonemes (Dagȳne)'''
|+ '''Vowel phonemes (Dagȳne)'''
! rowspan="2" style=""|
! rowspan="2" style=""|
! colspan="3" style="" |Front
! colspan="2" style="" |Front
! colspan="2" style="" |Central
! colspan="1" style="" |Central
! colspan="3" style="" |Back
! colspan="2" style="" |Back
|-
|-
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
!style="width: 45px; "|<small>rhotic</small>
|-
|-
! style="" |Close
! style="" |Close
| /ɪ~ɪ̞/
| /ɪ~ɪ̞/
| /iː/
| /iː/
| /e˞ː/
|  
|  
| [ɚ]
| /ʊ/
| /ʊ/
| /uː/
| /uː/
| /ʊ˞ː/
|-
|-
! style="" |Open
! style="" |Open
| [ɛ~æ]
| [ɛ~æ]
| [æː]
| [æː]
| [æ˞ː]
| /a/  
| /a/  
| /a˞ː/
|  
|  
| /aː/
| /aː/
| [ɑ˞ː]
|}
|}


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*Short /ɪ/ is lowered to [ɪ̞] after hard consonants.
*Short /ɪ/ is lowered to [ɪ̞] after hard consonants.
*/e˞ː/ has two allophones:
*/a aːː/ each have three allophones:
**[e˞ː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
**[ɐ~ɑ ɑː] after non-radical hard consonants
**[ɨ˞ː] after non-radical hard consonants
**[ɛ~æ æː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
*/a aː a˞ː/ each have three allophones:
**[ɐ~ɑ ɑː ɑ˞ː] after non-radical hard consonants
**[ɛ~æ æː æ˞ː] after soft consonants, radicals and /h/
*Unstressed rhotic vowels have a tendency to reduce in colloquial speech: /ʲe˞ ʲæ˞/ > [ʲɚ], /ˠɑ˞ ˠe˞/ > [ˠɚ], /ɔ˞ ʊ˞/ > [o˞].


===Fiuschēra===
===Fiuschēra===
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