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====Monophthongs==== =====A===== Short ''a'' remains in most positions{{sfn|Buck|1904|pp=29–30}} Long ''ā'' remains in an initial or medial position. Final ''ā'' starts to sound similar to {{IPA|[ɔː]}} so that it is written ''ú'' or, rarely, ''u''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=30}} =====E===== Short ''e'' "generally remains unchanged;" before a labial in a medial syllable, it becomes ''u'' or ''i'', and before another vowel, ''e'' raises to higher-mid [ẹ], written ''í''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|pp=31–32}} Long ''ē'' similarly raises to higher-mid [ẹ], the sound of written ''í'' or ''íí''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=33}} =====I===== Short ''i'' becomes written ''í''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=34}} Long ''ī'' is spelt with ''i'' but when written with doubling as a mark of length with ''ií''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=35}} =====O===== Short ''o'' remains mostly unchanged, written ''ú'';{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=36}} before a final ''-m'', ''o'' becomes more like ''u''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=37}} Long ''ō'' becomes denoted by ''u'' or ''uu''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=38}} =====U===== Short ''u'' generally remains unchanged; after ''t'', ''d'', ''n'', the sound becomes that of ''iu''.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=40}} Long ''ū'' generally remains unchanged; it changed to an ī sound in monosyllables, and may have changed to an ''ī'' sound for final syllables.{{sfn|Buck|1904|p=41}}
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