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=== Vowels === {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; float: left; margin-right: 1em;" ! ! [[Front vowel|Front]] ! [[Central vowel|Central]] ! [[Back vowel|Back]] |- ! style="text-align: left;" | [[Close vowel|Close]] | style="font-size:90%" | {{IPA link|i}} | style="font-size:90%" | ({{IPA link|ɨ}}) | style="font-size:90%" | {{IPA link|u}} |- ! style="text-align: left;" | [[Mid vowel|Mid]] | style="font-size:90%" | {{IPA link|e̞|e}} | | style="font-size:90%" | {{IPA link|o̞|o}} |- ! style="text-align: left;" | [[Open vowel|Open]] | | style="font-size:90%" | {{IPA link|ä|a}} | |} [[File:Russian vowel chart.svg|thumb|Russian vowel chart by {{Harvcoltxt|Trofimov|Jones|1923|p=55}}]] Russian has five or six vowels in stressed syllables, {{IPA|/i, u, e, o, a/}}, and in some analyses {{IPA|/ɨ/}}, but in most cases these vowels have merged to only two to four vowels when unstressed: {{IPA|/i, u, a/}} (or {{IPA|/ɨ, u, a/}}) after hard consonants and {{IPA|/i, u/}} after soft ones. These vowels have several [[allophones]], which are displayed on the diagram to the right.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 January 2020 |title=Russian Vowels: All the Rules You Need to Know {{!}} FluentU Russian Blog |url=https://www.fluentu.com/blog/russian/russian-vowels/ |access-date=28 November 2023 |website=FluentU Russian |language=en-US |archive-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104031432/https://www.fluentu.com/blog/russian/russian-vowels/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Ordin, Mikhail. (2011). Palatalization and Intrinsic Prosodic Vowel Features in Russian. Language and speech. 54. 547-68. 10.1177/0023830911404962.</ref>
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