Scottish Gaelic Phonology - Vowels

Vowels

The following is a chart of the monophthong vowel phonemes appearing in Scottish Gaelic:

Scottish Gaelic vowel phonemes
Front Near-front Central Back
Close i ɯ u
Near-close ɪ
Close-mid e ɤ o
Mid ə
Open-mid ɛ ɔ
Open a

All vowel phonemes except for and can be both long (ː) and short.

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