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Vowels

Vowels categorized by sound type

Nasals have a free passage of air through the nasal cavity. If you close the nose and try to pronounce a nasal, the sound will significantly change. The most well known nasals are semi consonants [m] and [n].

To pronounce semi umlauts tongue goes down and backwards.

To pronounce umlauts tongue goes way down and backwards so that even jaw goes a little bit down. When jaw goes down, it causes assimilation of vowels. Result is that number of umlauts is double less than number of other types of vowels. If one would open mouth as much as possible and try to pronounce vowels they will be barely distinguishable.

Vowels Sound Table

Nasals	Â	Ê	Зˆ	Ô	Î	Û
Basic	A	E	З	O	I	U
Semi Umlauts	Ä	Ë	З¨	Ω	Ï	Y
Umlauts	Æ		Ö		Ü

Letters “Ö” and “Ü” are already used for phonemes [Ö] and [Ü] in German and Hungarian. Letter “Æ” was in use for phoneme [Æ] in Old English / Anglo Saxon. I was trying to keep Alphabet as traditional as possible. Whenever some phoneme already had a letter, I am respecting the tradition and using this letter for this phoneme, if it is not violating the phonetic rules.