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1. Front Vowels

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   Typological Distribution and Orthographic Representation
   Front vowels are nearly ubiquitous across the world's extant languages, though their systems vary widely in complexity. Many languages utilize diacritics to distinguish between subtle front vowel distinctions not readily available in the basic IPA set.
   In languages employing the Latin script, front vowels are often represented by the letters i, e, and a. However, orthographic mappings are fre…