Phonetics and Phonology (ENG)
VU remember that these symbols do not have the same values as English or their descriptions of cardinal vowels. Japanese also
has a set of five vowels i, ea, o, u but very different in a narrower transcription than that of Spanish.
Similarly, Danish has different vowels and their qualities as it contrasts three front rounded vowels which may occur both in long or short forms. Focusing on
Pakistani regional languages, Urdu and Punjabi have very different nasal vowels (the nasality is phonemic here. Urdu has some seven nasal vowels such as he vs. h or hi vs. has in word nah meaning no. Nasalization in vowels is a common feature of Indo Aryan languages.
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