Editing Tanacross language (section)

=== Vowels ===
There are six phonemic vowels:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
!
! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Central vowel|Central]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! [[High vowel|High]]
| {{IPA link|i}}
|
| {{IPA link|u}}
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| {{IPA link|e}}
| {{IPA link|ə}}
| {{IPA link|o}}
|-
! [[Low vowel|Low]]
|
| {{IPA link|a}}
|
|}

The [[vowel]]s {{IPA|i}}, {{IPA|e}}, {{IPA|a}}, and {{IPA|u}} may be distinguished for length, indicated in the practical [[orthography]] by doubling the vowel. The [[reduced vowel]] {{IPA|ä}} is indicated via the letter {{angbr|e}}. Thus, the practical orthography does not distinguish short {{IPA|e}} from {{IPA|ə}}.

Vowels may be marked for high (á), rising (ǎ), falling (â) or extra-high (á́) [[Tone (linguistics)|tone]]. Low tone is unmarked.