Editing Lakota language (section)

===Vowels===
Lakota has five oral vowels, {{IPA|/i e a o u/}}, and three nasal vowels, {{IPA|/ĩ ã ũ/}} (phonetically {{IPA|[ɪ̃ ə̃ ʊ̃]}}). Lakota {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/o/}} are said to be [[open-mid vowel|more open]] than the corresponding cardinal vowels, perhaps closer to {{IPA|[ɛ]}} and {{IPA|[ɔ]}}. Orthographically, the nasal vowels are written with a following {{angle bracket|ƞ}}, {{angle bracket|ŋ}}, or {{angle bracket|n}}; historically, these were written with [[ogonek]]s underneath, {{angle bracket|į ą ų}}.<ref>''Elementary Bilingual Dictionary English–Lakhóta Lakhóta–English'' (1976) CU Lakhóta Project University of Colorado</ref> No syllables end with consonantal {{IPA|/n/}}.

{|class="wikitable" style=text-align:center
! colspan=2|
! scope="col" | [[Front vowel|Front]]
! scope="col" | [[Central vowel|Central]]
! scope="col" | [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row" | [[Close vowel|Close/High]]
! scope="row" | <small>oral</small>
| {{IPA link|i}} {{angbr|i}}
| 
| {{IPA link|u}} {{angbr|u}}
|-
! scope="row" | <small>[[Nasal vowel|nasal]]</small>
| {{IPA link|ĩ}} {{angbr|iŋ}}
| 
| {{IPA link|ũ}} {{angbr|uŋ}}
|-
! scope="row" | [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
! 
| {{IPA link|e}} {{angbr|e}}
| 
| {{IPA link|o}} {{angbr|o}}
|-
! rowspan="2" scope="row" | [[Open vowel|Open/Low]]
! scope="row" | <small>oral</small>
| 
| {{IPA link|a}} {{angbr|a}}
| 
|-
! scope="row" | <small>[[Nasal vowel|nasal]]</small>
| 
| {{IPA link|ã}} {{angbr|aŋ}}
| 
|}

A neutral vowel ([[schwa]]) is [[epenthesis|automatically inserted]] between certain consonants, e.g. into the pairs {{angle bracket|gl}}, {{angle bracket|bl}} and {{angle bracket|gm}}. So the clan name written phonemically as {{angle bracket|Oglala}} has become the place name ''[[Ogallala, Nebraska|Ogallala]]''.