| 31. | The close back vowels and are truly rounded, rather than the compressed vowels of standard Japanese.
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| 32. | Change to would be assimilation : the back vowel becoming front because of the following front vowel.
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| 33. | Thus, there is no one-to-one correspondence in the spelling of back vowels.
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| 34. | The close back vowels often use the consonant ? " w " to indicate their quality.
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| 35. | In such words,,, and often occur with back vowels : some examples are given below.
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| 36. | In most languages, front vowels tend to be unrounded, and back vowels tend to be rounded.
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| 37. | However, the weak grade of survives, as before a back vowel or before a front vowel.
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| 38. | The infinitive form of a verb determines whether it will follow a front vowel harmony or back vowel harmony.
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| 39. | This is one reason they are written to the left of rounded back vowels in the IPA vowel chart.
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| 40. | The pronunciation of varies depending on context; it is labial before back vowels and labiodental before front vowels.
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