Both short and long vowels can occur in any position.
As well, no distinction is made between long and short vowels.
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.
There were no longer distinctions of long and short vowels in popular speech.
Since that time new long mid vowels have come to the language from various sources.
Long vowels may change tone, and this is not represented in the written language.
Like the acute, it falls on both short and long vowels.
Long vowels are sometimes written with double letters, but not consistently.