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** Long vowels and glides are written with a larger bend or loop, while short vowels have a simpler shape.
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** and vowels
** – colon, used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to mark long vowels.
** tzu for tsû ( pinyin zi ), but it still remains ts-before other vowels, as in tsung for the Pinyin zong.
** tz ' u for ts ' û ( pinyin ci ), but remains ts '- before other vowels.
** szu or ssu for ssû ( pinyin si ), but is s-before other vowels.
** With the remaining vowels a vocalised is not absorbed, but remains phonetically present as a back vocoid in such a way that and are kept distinct.
** Loss of phonemic length for vowels
** sod -: in Latin solium " throne " ( in Latin l sporadically replaces d between vowels, said by Roman grammarians to be a Sabine trait )
** Synaeresis, the pronunciation of two vowels as a diphthong
** Crasis, contraction of two vowels into one monophthong
** If there are two vowels side by side, both have to be written, unless the second could be readily determined.
** The vowels have to be written if their omission created ambiguity.
** The Majorcan system has eight stressed vowels, reduced to four in unstressed position.
** The Western Minorcan system has eight stressed vowels, reduced to three in unstressed position.
** The Eastern Minorcan and Ibizan system has seven stressed vowels reduced to three in unstressed position ( as in Central Catalan ).
** The so-called " open vowels " ( vocals obertes ), and, are generally as low as in most Balearic subvarieties.
** While long vowels are constrained to closed syllables in France, Belgian French also has them in absolute final position: < ée #>, < aie #>, < ue #>, < ie #>, < oue #> and < eue #>.
** Diphthongisation of the long high vowels î, û and iu (): MHG hût > NHG Haut (" skin ").
** Monophthongisation of the MHG opening diphthongs ie, uo and üe, replacing the lost long high vowels: MHG huot > NHG Hut (" hat ")
** lengthening of stressed short vowels in open syllables: MHG sagen > NHG sagen (" say ")
** before vowels, otherwise ; or
** after long vowels, otherwise ; or
** In Egypt, close vowels have different values ; short initial or medial:, ← instead of.
** Mishnah ( without vowels, based on Maimonides ' version )
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