long vowel

Both short and long vowels can occur in any position.

The language makes a distinction between short and long vowels.

All may be doubled, but there are no long vowels.

Teachers teach the children that a long vowel "says" its name.

Like the acute, it falls on both short and long vowels.

Moreover, the long vowel sound in a word should not be omitted.

For speechreaders, the most important are the five long vowels.

Long vowels may change tone, and this is not represented in the written language.

Other long vowels are written with a single acute accent.

Long vowels are sometimes written with double letters, but not consistently.

On average Frisians use a high number of long vowels.

Otherwise, if there are long vowels stress falls on the first in the word.

That is similar to using two vowels for longer vowel sounds.

Long vowels can only occur in the first syllable of a word.

Here also, the table shows long vowel letters only in isolated form for clarity.

There is a slight change in articulation between short and long vowels.

Long vowels in other positions also attract a secondary stress.

Many dialects no longer distinguish between short and long vowels.

The music of this sphere is one long vowel.

The last syllable of a verse may not include a long vowel.

The long vowel pronunciation is used in all Utah place names.

All long vowels in a word get equal stress.

For example, the East coast dialect is characterized by long vowels.

A macron was generally used to indicate a long vowel.

All long vowels may be shortened by a phonological process.