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| Front | Back | High | I | U |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | diphthongs | Ei | Ou |
| monophthongs | E | O | |
| Low | diphthongs | Ai | Au |
| monophthongs | A | ||
Arden words display vowel harmony along the front/back dimension. All of the vowels in a word are either front or back, and this also applies to the four diphthongs. The vowel A is neutral and may appear in both front and back words.
Vowel harmony is left-to-right, and its domain is the morphological word (stem and suffixes) plus any attached clitic.
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