The interjection " no ? " ( equal to the Spanish " �no ? " and the German " nicht ? " ) is pronounced as or, with a pure vowel instead of the English glide, which shows influence from Spanish.
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Sedang itself has 24 pure vowels : 7 vowel qualities, all of which may be plain ( [ a ] ), creaky ( [ a0 ] ) and three of which / i a o / may be both nasal and creaky ( [ ? ] ).
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The vowel system is not yet fully understood, complicated by differences between the Agole and Toende dialects and the system of diphthongs in Agole, which according to the most-favoured analysis, enables Agole with seven contrastive vowel segments to cover the contrasts represented in Toende with nine pure vowels.
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Southern accents are colloquially described as a " drawl " or " twang, " being recognised most readily by the Southern Vowel Shift that begins with glide-deleting in the vowel ( e . g . pronouncing " spy " almost like " spa " ), the " Southern breaking " of several front pure vowels into a gliding vowel or even two syllables ( e . g . pronouncing the word " press " almost like " pray-us " ), the pin pen merger, and other distinctive phonologial, grammatical, and lexical features, many of which are actually recent developments of the 19th century or later.
