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Those speech sounds made with open, unrestricted vocal tracts, in contrast to consonants.

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What languages have a three-way vowel distinction with backness?

I am learning a Tigrinya for the last couple of months, and find it difficult to grasp and produce the central vowels of the language (see picture). …
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