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Faroese vowels

	Front				Central		Back
	unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	ɪ	iː	ʏ	(yː)			ʊ	uː
Mid	ɛ	eː	œ	øː			ɔ	oː
Open					a	(aː)

• /i, u/ are similar to the respective cardinal vowels [i, u].
• /ɪ, ʏ/ are phonetically near-close [ɪ, ʏ].
• /ɛ, œ, ɔ/ are true-mid monophthongs [ɛ̝, œ̝, ɔ̝] when short and opening diphthongs [eɛː, øœː, oɔː] (also transcribed as [ɪɛː, øʏœː, ʊɔː]) when long. The long allophones are typically transcribed [ɛː, œː, ɔː], also in this article.
• /œ, ʏ/ are traditionally indicated with rounded front vowel symbols, but they are actually rounded central vowels closer in backness to [ɵ̞, ʉ̞] respectively.

in particular is very close to a true schwa [ə], but rounded. This article uses the symbols /œ, ʏ/.

Guttural R in Finnish

In the 19th century, the uvular trill [ʀ] penetrated the upper classes in the region of Lisbon in Portugal as the realization of the alveolar trill. By the 20th century, it had replaced the alveolar trill in most of the country's urban areas and started to give way to the voiced uvular fricative [ʁ]. Many northern dialects, like Transmontano, Portuese (which is heard in parts of Aveiro), Minhoto, and much of Beirão retain the alveolar trill. In the rural regions, the alveolar trill is still present, but because most of the country's population currently lives in or near the cities and owing to the mass media, the guttural [ʀ] is now dominant in Portugal.