| 31. | Long vowels and " " are not considered separate letters.
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| 32. | The alternate checked tone 7 is found on the long vowel.
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| 33. | The long vowel of a one-syllable word may get shortened.
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| 34. | However, spelling alphabets seem to rarely use initial long vowels.
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| 35. | Long vowels are pronounced somewhat more peripherally than short ones.
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| 36. | Morphological treatment of diphthongs is essentially similar to long vowels.
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| 37. | That is, long vowels are shortened, while short vowels disappear.
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| 38. | Macrons over vowels were rarely used to indicate long vowels.
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| 39. | Vowel length is contrastive, resulting in the long vowels and.
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| 40. | Phonotactically, this does not occur after long vowels, diphthongs or.
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