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 * The bilabial approximant sounds like Federation Standard's [w] but does not include pushing the tongue back.
 ===Vowels===
-The following table shows the vowel phonemes of Denobulan:
+There are eight vowels in Denobulan. The language also distinguishes some vowels by length. Long vowels are spoken for a longer amount of time. The language has no diphthongs. The following table shows the vowel phonemes of Denobulan:
 {| class="wikitable"
 ! Vowels
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 |-
 | style="font-style:italic;" | Open
-| style="text-align: center;" | i
+| style="text-align: center;" | i iː
-| style="text-align: center;" | u
+| style="text-align: center;" | u uː
-|-
-| style="font-style:italic;" | Open-mid
-| style="text-align: center;" | e
-| style="text-align: center; background-color:#efefef;" |
 |-
 | style="font-style:italic;" | Mid
-| style="text-align: center;" | ɛ
+| style="text-align: center;" | ɛ e
 | style="text-align: center;" | ɔ
 |-
 | style="font-style:italic;" | Close
-| style="background-color:#efefef;" |
+| style="text-align: center;" colspan=2 | ã
-| style="text-align: center;" | ɑ
 |}
+''If there are two vowels in one cell, the left one is short and the right one long.''
+====Notes====
+* The short close front vowel [i] loses its quality and becomes [ɪ] in some dialects.
+* The vowels /i/ and /u/ are distinguished by length grammatically; even though there is a slight difference in length between [ɛ] and [e], these are two distinct vowels not grammatically distinguished by length.
+* The mid back vowel [ɔ] becomes the schwa [ə] when unstressed.
+* The close vowel [ã] can be realized in multiple ways.
+** Some dialects distinguish short [ɑ] and long [ã]; this is non-standard, however.
+** In other dialects, it might be pronounced as [a], [ɐ] or [ɑ].
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