Editing Armenian language (section)

===Vowels===
All varieties of Armenian employ only [[monophthongs]]. Eastern Armenian has six vowels, while Western Armenian has an additional two front rounded vowels.

{| class="wikitable"
|+Eastern Armenian vowel phonemes<ref>{{Harvnb|Dum-Tragut|2009|p=13}}</ref>
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| [[Close vowel|Close]]
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|i}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ի|ի]]}}<br />i
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" |
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|u}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ու|ու]]}}<br />u
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|ɛ}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ե|ե]]}}, {{lang|hy|[[wikt:է|է]]}}<br />e, ē
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|ə}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ը|ը]]}}<br />ë
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center;" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|ɔ}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ո|ո]]}}, {{lang|hy|[[wikt:օ|օ]]}}<br />o, ō
|-
! style="text-align:left;"| [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA|/{{IPA link|ɑ}}/}} <br />{{lang|hy|[[wikt:ա|ա]]}}<br />a
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+Western Armenian vowel phonemes
!
! colspan=2| [[Front vowel|Front]]
! rowspan=2| [[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan=2| [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
!|| [[unrounded vowel|Unrounded]] || [[rounded vowel|Rounded]] || [[unrounded vowel|Unrounded]] || [[rounded vowel|Rounded]]
|-
! align="left" | [[Close vowel|Close]]
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|i}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|ի}}
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|ʏ}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|իւ}}
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|u}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|ու}}
|-
! align="left" | [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|ɛ}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|է, ե}}<ref name="context_sensitive">The choice of Armenian symbol depends on the vowel's context in the word.  See the ''Orthography'' section [[#Orthography|below]] for details.</ref>
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|œ}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|էօ}}
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|ə}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|ը}}
| &nbsp;
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center;" | {{IPA link|o}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|ո, օ}}<ref name="context_sensitive"/>
|-
! align="left" | [[Open vowel|Open]]
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| &nbsp;
| class="nounderlines" style="text-align:center" | {{IPA link|ɑ}}&nbsp;&nbsp;{{angbr|ա}}
| &nbsp;
|}