This is a cross-language list of all the possible 66 base vowel sounds you can make (half of them are nasal sounds, so there are about 33 base vowels). Several of them sound and function very similarly, and so are merged into a single Tone note.
Like the consonants phonology page, you can click the top of any glyph box to see words using that glyph or vowel, and can click the glyph itself to potentially hear the sound if we have a recording of it. Click the IPA symbol below to learn more about the specific sound articulation and such on Wikipedia.
| manner | front unrounded | front rounded | front central unrounded | front central rounded | central unrounded | central rounded | back central unrounded | back central rounded | back unrounded | back rounded | |
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| close | |||||||||||
| close nasal | |||||||||||
| near-close | |||||||||||
| near-close nasal | |||||||||||
| close-mid | |||||||||||
| close-mid nasal | |||||||||||
| mid | |||||||||||
| mid nasal | |||||||||||
| open-mid | |||||||||||
| open-mid nasal | |||||||||||
| near-open | |||||||||||
| near-open nasal | |||||||||||
| open | |||||||||||
| open nasal |