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echo vowel
In speech, an echo vowel, also known as a synharmonic vowel, is a paragogic vowel that repeats the final vowel in a word. For example, in Chumash, when a word ends with a glottal stop and comes at the end of an intonation unit, the final vowel is repeated after the glottal stop, but is whispered and faint, as in for "arrow" (written ''ya).'' In Rukai (Taiwan), echo vowels are pronounced as full vowels. However, they are predictable and disappear when under reduplication or when a suffix beginning with /a/ is added to the word.
Echo vowels are also found in writing, especially with syllabaries. For example, a word ''kab'' may be written as if it were ''kaba,'' and ''keb'' would be written as if it were ''kebe.'' Such as system is found in Maya, with complications depending on the quality of the preceding vowel. In Linear B, such final consonants were simply not written. However, consonant clusters were separated with echo vowels, for example writing the city Knossos as if it were ''Konoso'' (Linear B: , ''ko-no-so''). In Ainu, some writers write final /r/ with a subscript kana for ''ra, re, ri, ro,'' or ''ru,'' depending on the preceding vowel whereas others use a subscript ''ru'' in all cases.
==See also==
*Paragoge (paragogic vowel)
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