Hausa language
Vowels

Hausa vowels occur in five different vowel qualities, all of which can be short or long, totaling 10 monophthongs. In addition, there are four diphthongs, giving a total number of 14 vocalic phonemes.

In comparison with the long vowels, the short /i, u/ can be similar in quality to the long vowels, mid-centralized to or centralized to.

Medial /i, u/ can be neutralized to, with the rounding depending on the environment.

Medial /e, o/ are neutralized with /a/.

The short /a/ can be either similar in quality to the long /aː/, or it can be as high as, with possible intermediate pronunciations ().

The 4 diphthongs in Hausa are /ai, au, iu, ui/.
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