Editing Choctaw language (section)

===Vowels===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |[[Short vowel|Short]]{{ref|v1|1}}
! rowspan="2" |[[Long vowel|Long]]
! rowspan="2" |[[Nasal vowel|Nasal]]{{ref|v2|2}}
|-
!<small>tense</small>
!<small>lax</small>
|-
! [[Close front unrounded vowel|Close front]]
|{{IPA|i}}
|{{IPA|ɪ}}
|{{IPA|iː}}
|{{IPA|ĩː~ẽː}}
|-
! [[Close-mid back unrounded vowel|Close-mid back]]
|{{IPA|o}}
|{{IPA|ʊ}}
|{{IPA|oː}}
|{{IPA|õː}}
|-
! [[Open central unrounded vowel|Open central]]
|{{IPA|a}}
|{{IPA|ə}}
|{{IPA|aː}}
|{{IPA|ãː}}
|}

# {{note|v1}} Lax vowels occur more often in closed syllables.<ref name="Broadwell16-18 2006" /> In traditional orthography, ''ʋ'' usually indicates {{IPA|[ə]}} and ''u'' usually indicates {{IPA|[ʊ]}}. Exceptions include ''pokoli'' (''traditional'') for {{IPA|/pʊk.koli/}}, ''imalakusi'' for {{IPA|/imaːlakosi/}}. The traditional orthography does not distinguish lax and tense front vowels; instead it indicates {{IPA|/iː/}} with ''e''.
# {{note|v2}} Nasal vowels are intrinsically long.

====Pitch====
# In Choctaw, very few words are distinguished only by pitch accent.<ref name="Broadwell16-18 2006">Broadwell (2006:16-18)</ref> Nouns in Choctaw have pitch realization at the penultimate syllable or the ultimate syllable.<ref name="Broadwell16-18 2006" /> Verbs in Choctaw will have pitch realization at morphemes indicating tense, but sometimes, pitch directly precedes the tense morpheme.<ref name="Broadwell16-18 2006" />