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Hawaiian has five pure vowels. The short vowels are {{IPA|/u, i, o, e, a/}}, and the long vowels, if they are considered separate phonemes rather than simply sequences of like vowels, are {{IPA|/uː, iː, oː, eː, aː/}}. When stressed, short {{IPA|/e/}} and {{IPA|/a/}} have been described as becoming {{IPAblink|ɛ}} and {{IPAblink|ɐ}}, while when unstressed they are {{IPAblink|e}} and {{IPAblink|ə}} {{Citation needed|reason=to back up assertion|date=September 2018}}. Parker Jones (2017), however, did not find a reduction of /a/ to {{IPAblink|ə}} in the phonetic analysis of a young speaker from [[Hilo, Hawaii|Hilo, Hawaiʻi]], who had been raised within the Hawaiian language revitalisation movement; so there is at least some variation in how /a/ is realised.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Parker Jones|first=ʻŌiwi|date=April 2018|title=Hawaiian|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-international-phonetic-association/article/hawaiian/9F2B300BCF6EE97EA7E4437C5FCECB57|journal=Journal of the International Phonetic Association|language=en|volume=48|issue=1|pages=103–115|doi=10.1017/S0025100316000438|s2cid=232350292|issn=0025-1003}}</ref> {{IPA|/e/}} also tends to become {{IPAblink|ɛ}} next to {{IPA|/l/}}, {{IPA|/n/}}, and another {{IPAblink|ɛ}}, as in ''Pele'' {{IPA|[pɛlɛ]}}. Some grammatical particles vary between short and long vowels. These include ''a'' and ''o'' "of", ''ma'' "at", ''na'' and ''no'' "for". Between a back vowel {{IPA|/o/}} or {{IPA|/u/}} and a following non-back vowel ({{IPA|/a e i/}}), there is an [[epenthesis|epenthetic]] {{IPAblink|w}}, which is generally not written. Between a front vowel {{IPA|/e/}} or {{IPA|/i/}} and a following non-front vowel ({{IPA|/a o u/}}), there is an [[epenthetic]] {{IPAblink|j}} (a ''y'' sound), which is never written.
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