Editing Gbe languages (section)

===Vowels===
The following vowels are found in Gbe languages:

{| class="wikitable" 
|+ <small>Phonetic inventory of vowels in Gbe languages</small>
!<small>Capo 1991:24</small>!![[Front vowel|Front]]!![[Central vowel|Central]]!![[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
| style="text-align: right;"|[[Close vowel|Close]]||{{IPA link|i}}•{{IPA link|ĩ}}|| ||{{IPA link|u}}•{{IPA link|ũ}}
|-
| style="text-align: right;"|[[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]||{{IPA link|e}}•{{IPA link|ẽ}}|| ||{{IPA link|o}}•{{IPA link|õ}}
|-
| || ||{{IPA link|ə}}•{{IPA link|ə̃}}||
|-
| style="text-align: right;"|[[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]||{{IPA link|ɛ}}•{{IPA link|ɛ̃}}|| ||{{IPA link|ɔ}}•{{IPA link|ɔ̃}}
|-
| style="text-align: right;"|[[Open vowel|Open]]|| ||{{IPA link|a}}•{{IPA link|ã}}||
|}

In general, each Gbe variety makes use of a subset of twelve vowels, seven [[Oral vowel|oral]] and five [[Nasal vowel|nasalised]]. The vowels {{IPA|/i ĩ u ũ e o ɛ̃ ɔ ɔ̃ a ã/}} are attested in all Gbe languages.

Nasalization plays an important role in the vowel inventory: every vowel in the Gbe languages occurs in a non-nasalized and a nasalized form. Capo (1991) observes that the degree of nasality of nasal vowels is less when they occur after nasal consonants than after non-nasal ones.