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<span class="comment">-- vowels as separate phonemes. There are perhaps better ways to do this.</span>
<span class="comment">-- We could technically have put all short, long and diphthong vowels into</span>
<span class="comment">-- the same category and shortened our list of syllable structures to only two,</span>
<span class="comment">-- but this way we could make rules differentiating between short and long</span>
<span class="comment">-- vowels without having to mention the sounds individually.</span>
