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The front vowels are extremely stable in the speech of older people, but they are the subject of multiple mergers in younger people's speech: | The front vowels are extremely stable in the speech of older people, but they are the subject of multiple mergers in younger people's speech: | ||
* The most common of those mergers is between /i/ and /e/—both realised as [ɪ] or as | * The most common of those mergers is between /i/ and /e/—both realised as [ɪ] or as either of the two original vowels. For example, one might pronounce 폫 (pyē) anywhere between /pjiː/, /pjɪː/ or /pjeː/. | ||
* In some dialects, the vowels /i/ and /ɯ/ sometimes merge into a single [ɨ] vowel. This merger usually doesn't occur alongside the previous one, except in a few scattered areas of southern Băngdan (ᄇᆞᆼ단), the southernmost region of Gwacha. For instance, the pronoun 킆 (keup) is pronounced somewhere around [kɨp] or even around [kep] for some people in Băngdan. | |||