monophthongal

It has eight monophthongal accented vowels, as in standard Slovene.

All are monophthongal at the phonemic level.

An alternative account posits that these monophthongal variants represent historical retentions.

The vowel system differs from the Rižana subdialect in that the long accented vowels are monophthongal.

In Danish and Norwegian, æ represents monophthongal vowel phonemes.

In addition to the monophthongal vowels above, Acehnese also possesses five oral diphthongs, each with a nasal counterpart:

Among other features, this group is characterized by monophthongal stressed vowels, an acute semivowel, pitch accent, standard circumflex shift, and two accentual retractions with some exceptions.

Regionally, monophthongal mid vowels are more common in the northern tier of states, occurring more frequently in Minnesota and the Dakotas but much rarer in Iowa and Nebraska.

Alone among the various regional Southern accents, the Charleston accent traditionally has ingliding or monophthongal long mid vowels, raises /ay/ and /aw/ in certain environments, and is rhotic and non-rhotic accents.

Possible contributions from other languages are reversed leave let from German and monophthongal /aw/ from contact between English and one or more Slavic languages (Johnstone 2002; Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2005), though these influences are openly posited as speculative.

The modern monophthongal vowels come first, with the derived forms interspersed according to their form: first added i, then iotized, then iotized with added i. Diphthongs beginning with w are ordered according to their spelling, as ㅏ or ㅓ plus a second vowel, not as separate digraphs.