Võro:Sounds and Writing
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Võro / Voru |
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| Finno-Ugric | South Estonian | Estonia: Võrumaa |
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Vowel Harmony
Unlike Estonian, but like most other Finno-Ugric languages, Võro has vowel harmony. This is a system where a single word (or root word) cannot contain a mix between front and back vowels.
Võro has the following vowels.
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| Close | i | y | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ø | ɤ | o |
| Open | æ | ɑ | ||
These are organised into the table like this.
| Front | Ä | Ö | Ü | E | I |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back | A | O | U | Õ | I |
Notes:
- The above table basically means that words cannot contain a mix of letters from the same row as each other.
- For example, the Estonian word külla becomes küllä in Võro. The letter in the first row can be replaced by the letter in the second row directly above
- When you add a case ending in Võro, some of them have to agree. So külä becomes küläldäq but hammastõ becomes hammastõldaq .
Võro pages
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| Introduction · Cases · Pronouns · Sounds and Writing · Verbs |
| Finno-Ugric Languages | |
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| Baltic-Finnic | Estonian · Finnish · Ingrian · Karelian · Livonian · Veps · Votic · Võro
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| Permic | Komi · Udmurt
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| Ugric | Hungarian · Khanty · Mansi
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| N/A | Erzya · Mari · Moksha
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Estonia: Võrumaa
Võro pages
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Komi ·
Mansi
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