Gwapyeo: Difference between revisions
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===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Most Gwapyeo speakers have eight vowels. | Most Gwapyeo speakers have eight vowels. All of them have short and long versions, the latter being marked with a coda ''ㅎ h''. | ||
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! Close | ! Close | ||
| | | /i/ ㅣ | ||
| | | /ɯ/ ㅡ | ||
| | | /u/ ㅜ | ||
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! Mid | ! Mid | ||
| | | /e/ ㅔ | ||
| | | /ʌ/ ㅓ | ||
| | | /o/ ㅗ | ||
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! Open | ! Open | ||
| | | /a/ ㅏ | ||
| colspan="2" | | | colspan="2" | /ɑ~ɒ/ㆍ | ||
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====Front vowels==== | |||
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 any of the two original vowels. | |||
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