Editing Lydian language (section)

=== Vowels ===
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|+Oral vowels
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![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
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![[High vowel|High]]
|{{IPA link|i}} {{grapheme|𐤦 - i}}
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|{{IPA link|u}} {{grapheme|𐤰 - u}}
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![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|{{IPA link|e}} {{grapheme|𐤤 - e}}
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|{{IPA link|o}} {{grapheme|𐤬 - o}}
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![[Low vowel|Low]]
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|{{IPA link|ä|a}} {{grapheme|𐤠 - a}}
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|+Nasal vowels
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![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
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![[Close vowel|Mid]]
| rowspan="2" |{{IPA link|ẽ}}~{{IPA link|æ̃}} {{grapheme|𐤶 - ẽ}}
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![[Low vowel|Low]]
|{{IPA link|ã}} {{grapheme|𐤵 - ã}}
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Lydian has seven vowels: 𐤠 '''''a''''', 𐤤 '''''e''''', 𐤦 '''''i''''', 𐤬 '''''o''''', 𐤰 '''''u''''', 𐤵 '''''ã''''', and 𐤶 '''''ẽ''''', the last two being nasal vowels,{{Sfn|Gérard|2005}} typically before a ([[Synchrony and diachrony|synchronic or diachronic]]) nasal consonant (like '''''n''''', '''''ñ''''' or '''''m'''''). The vowels '''''e''''', '''''o''''', '''''ã''''', and '''''ẽ''''' occur only when accented.<ref name="eichner1986">{{cite journal |id={{INIST|11914067}} |last1=Eichner |first1=H |title=Die Akzentuation des Lydischen L'accentuation du lydien |journal=Die Akzentuation des Lydischen l'Accentuation du Lydien |date=1986 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=7–21 }}</ref> A vowel or glide 𐤧 '''''y''''' appears rarely, only in the oldest inscriptions,<ref name="Sasseville & Euler 2019"/> and probably indicates an allophone of '''''i''''' or '''''e''''' that is perhaps unstressed.

Lydian is notable for its extensive consonant clusters, which resulted from the loss of word-final short vowels, together with massive [[syncope (phonetics)|syncope]]; there may have been an unwritten [ə] in such sequences.