Vowels Cypriot Greek
the vowels of cypriot greek. adapted arvaniti 1999, p. 4.
cypriot greek has five-vowel system /i, u, e, o, a/ identical of standard modern greek (see acoustic comparison of 2 vowel systems themistocleous 2017 , themistocleous 2017).
back vowels /i u/ following /t/ @ end of utterance regularly reduced (50% of cases presented in study) fricated vowels (40% of cases, cf. slavic yers), , elided altogether (5% of cases).
in glide-less analyses, /i/ may alternate [k] or [c], e.g. [kluvi] cage → [klufca] cages , or [kulːuɾi] koulouri → [kulːuɾ̥ka] koulouria ; and, in standard modern greek, pronounced [ɲ] when found between /m/ , vowel belongs same syllable, e.g. [mɲa] 1 (f.).
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