Editing Danish language (section)

=== Vowels ===
Although somewhat depending on analysis, most modern variants of Danish distinguish 12 long vowels, 13 short vowels, and two central vowels, {{IPA|/ə/}} and {{IPA|/ɐ/}}, which only occur in unstressed syllables. This gives a total of 27 different vowel phonemes – a very large number among the world's languages.{{sfn|Haberland|1994|p=319}} At least 19 different diphthongs also occur, all with a short first vowel and the second segment being either {{IPA|[j]}}, {{IPA|[w]}}, or {{IPA|[ɐ̯]}}.{{sfn|Haberland|1994|p=320}} The table below shows the approximate distribution of the vowels as given by {{Harvcoltxt|Grønnum|1998a}} in Modern Standard Danish, with the symbols used in [[Help:IPA/Danish|IPA/Danish]]. Questions of analysis may give a slightly different inventory, for example based on whether r-colored vowels are considered distinct phonemes. {{harvcoltxt|Basbøll|2005|page=50}} gives 25 "full vowels", not counting the two unstressed "schwa" vowels.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Vowel phonemes
! rowspan="3" |
! colspan="4" | [[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | [[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! colspan="2" | {{small|unrounded}}
! colspan="2" | {{small|rounded}}
|-
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
| {{IPA link|iː}}
| {{IPA link|y}}
| {{IPA link|yː}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|u}}
| {{IPA link|uː}}
|-
! [[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| {{IPA link|e̝|e}}
| {{IPA link|e̝|eː}}
| {{IPA link|ø}}
| {{IPA link|øː}}
| {{IPA link|ə}}
|
| {{IPA link|o}}
| {{IPA link|oː}}
|-
! [[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]
| {{IPA link|e|ɛ}}
| {{IPA link|eː|ɛː}}
| {{IPA link|œ̝|œ}}
| {{IPA link|œ̝|œː}}
| {{IPA link|ɐ}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɒ|ɔ}}
| {{IPA link|ɔ̝|ɔː}}
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
| {{IPA link|æ|a}}
| {{IPA link|ɛː|aː}}
|
|
| {{IPA link|ɑ̈|ɑ}}
| {{IPA link|ɑ̈|ɑː}}
| {{IPA link|ɒ}}
| {{IPA link|ɒː}}
|}