Editing Võro language (section)

===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" | [[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" | [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! {{small|unrounded}}
! {{small|rounded}}
! {{small|unrounded}}
! {{small|rounded}}
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
| {{IPA link|y}}
| {{IPA link|ɨ}}
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|e}}
| {{IPA link|ø}}
| {{IPA link|ɤ}}
| {{IPA link|o}}
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
| {{IPA link|æ}}
|
| {{IPA link|ɑ}}
|
|}

====Vowel harmony====

Võro has preserved the system of [[vowel harmony]] that was present in [[Proto-Finnic]].{{clarify|reason=Võro seems to have more vowels than Proto-Finnic. Didn't it add more vowels to the vowel harmony system of Proto-Finnic?|date=February 2016}} This distinguishes it from Estonian and some other Finnic languages, which have lost it.

The vowel harmony system distinguishes front, back and neutral vowels, much like the system found in Finnish. A word cannot contain both front and back vowels; suffixes automatically adapt the backness of the vowels depending on the type of vowels found in the word it is attached to. Neutral vowels can be combined with either type of vowel, although a word that contains only neutral vowels has front vowel harmony. The only neutral vowel is ''i'', like in [[Votic language|Votic]] but unlike Finnish and Karelian, where ''e'' is also neutral.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|+ Võro vowel harmony
!
! Front
! Back
|-
! Close rounded
| {{IPA link|y}}
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! Close unrounded
| colspan="2" | {{IPA link|i}} ({{IPA link|ɨ}}*)
|-
! Mid rounded
| {{IPA link|ø}}
| {{IPA link|o}}
|-
! Mid unrounded
| {{IPA link|e}}
| {{IPA link|ɤ}}
|-
! Open
| {{IPA link|æ}}
| {{IPA link|ɑ}}
|}

*The vowel ''ɨ'' (in the Võro orthography written with ''õ'' or ''y'', see Orthography section) is considered a back vowel for harmony purposes, but does not participate in harmony itself, as it does not occur in suffixes and endings.

Some examples, with Estonian and Finnish included for comparison:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Võro
! Estonian
! Finnish
! Meaning
|-
| kül'''ä'''
| küla
| kyl'''ä'''
| village
|-
| küs'''ü'''n'''ü'''q
| küsinud
| kys'''y'''n'''y'''t
| asked
|-
| hõb'''õ'''h'''õ'''n'''õ'''
| hõbedane
| hopeinen
| silver (adj.)
|}