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Oral vowelAn oral vowel is a vowel that is produced by air that escapes through the mouth only (as opposed to nasal vowels, in which air also goes out through the nose).All languages have oral vowels; some also have nasal vowels. Sometimes the oral vowels are always phonetically oral, but often the phonemically oral vowels become nasalized when adjacent to nasal consonants. For example, the vowel /I/ in English tin is phonetically nasal [I~] due to the presence of the nasal /n/.
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