Vowel

A vowel is a sound which is often the nucleus of a syllable and is the least restricted, that is, the most open type of sound produced by the human mouth. Human languages often have more vowels than Saguan languages, due to Saguan mouths having less flexibility when relaxed.

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Typology

While human languages average around 5-7 distinct vowel qualities per language, saguan languages have only 2-4 on average. Additionally, it is unheard of for a human language to have only one vowel, but 10% of these saguan languages have only this low number. The highest number of distinct vowel qualities in a spoken human language is 15, attained by XXXLanguageXXX, whereas the highest number for a saguan language is 11 in Slkepno. Diphthongs, triphthongs, and syllabic consonants are much more common in saguan languages. Almost all saguan languages have syllables.