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* The bilabial approximant sounds like Federation Standard's [w] but does not include pushing the tongue back. | * The bilabial approximant sounds like Federation Standard's [w] but does not include pushing the tongue back. | ||
===Vowels=== | ===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" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Vowels | ! Vowels | ||
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| style="font-style:italic;" | Open | | 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;" | Mid | | style="font-style:italic;" | Mid | ||
| style="text-align: center;" | ɛ | | style="text-align: center;" | ɛ e | ||
| style="text-align: center;" | ɔ | | style="text-align: center;" | ɔ | ||
|- | |- | ||
| style="font-style:italic;" | Close | | style="font-style:italic;" | Close | ||
| style="text-align: center;" colspan=2 | ã | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | | |||
|} | |} | ||
''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]. | |||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||