Editing Bats language (section)

=== Vowels ===
Bats has a [[Linguistic typology|typologically common]] five-vowel system. Although some authors claim that all vowels but /u/ contrast in [[Vowel length|length]], no [[minimal pair]]s are given in any studies of Batsbi, nor are examples of long vowels available in the literature.

{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="text-align: center"
|-
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[High vowel|High]]
| {{IPA link|i}} 
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|ɛ}} 
| {{IPA link|ɔ}} 
|-
! [[Low vowel|Low]]
|colspan=2| {{IPA link|a}} {{ns}} {{IPA link|aː}}
|}

Bats also has the following [[diphthong]]s: {{IPA|/ei/}}, {{IPA|/ui/}}, {{IPA|/oi/}}, {{IPA|/ai/}}, {{IPA|/ou/}}, and {{IPA|/au/}}.<ref>HG1994{{Full citation needed|date=September 2013}}</ref>

All vowels and diphthongs have [[Nasalization|nasalised]] [[allophone]]s that are the result of [[Phonetics|phonetic]] and [[Morphophonology|morphophonemic]] processes: [ ĩ ẽ ã õ ũ ]. Nasalised vowels are represented in the [[Georgian scripts|Mkhedruli script]] via a superscript ⟨ნ⟩ following the vowel in question, as in კნათ'''ე<sup>ნ</sup>''' for [k'nat'''ẽ'''] {{gloss|boy-{{gcl|GEN}}}}.