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Vowels

The vowel (Latin "vōcālis", pertaining to voice) in fonetics is a phone that's principal outcome is a vocoid. From the articulatory point of view, a vowel is a sound made by the vibration of the vocal chords without any obstruction to the normal airflow, thus causing resonance. The various vowels are obtained by changing the resonance, and thus with a larger or smaller opening of the mouth, with or without protrusion of the lips, with or without a passage of air through the nasal cavities, and with the tongue placed more or less toward the anterior of the oral cavity.

In the Unified Sicilian Language there are five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. These vowels have a long and a short sound, depending on their position within a word.

The accented vowels are the long vowels:

Accented
Vowel	Example	English	Italiano	IPA
a	patri	father	padre	/a/
e	esti	bed	bene	/ɛ/
i	pira	machine	bile	/i/
o	bonu	bog	parola	/ɔ/
u	tunnu	boot	tutta	/u/

The unaccented vowels are the short vowels:

Unaccented
Vowel	Example	English	Italiano	IPA
a	pósanu	parola	tall	/ɐ/
i	arríriri	bid		/ɪ/
u	tunnu	put		/ʊ/