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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Israeli Hebrew has 7 oral vowels and 1 nasal vowel, one of the largest vowel inventories to occur in any Semitic language and one of the few ones with nasal vowels. Nasal vowels arise from historical oral vowels before | Israeli Hebrew has 7 oral vowels and 1 nasal vowel, one of the largest vowel inventories to occur in any Semitic language and one of the few ones with nasal vowels. Nasal vowels arise from historical oral vowels before ayin. Vowels are also nasalized allophonically before nasal consonants. | ||
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Vowels tend to reduce in unstressed syllables: /æ/ reduces to [ɐ], /ɛ/ to [ə], /ɒ/ to [ɜ], /ø/ to [ʏ | Vowels tend to reduce in unstressed syllables: /æ/ reduces to [ɐ], /ɛ/ to [ə], /ɒ/ to [ɜ], /ø/ to [ʏ], /u/ to [ʉ], and /i/ and final /e/ to [ɪ]. | ||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||