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''mehrileh'' contains 7 vowel phonemes<ref name=":0" />, most if not all of which are relatively easy to naturally pronounce for anglophones. To type the conlang more easily, phonemes represented in the IPA by a character not in the English alphabet are written by a letter or group of letters that are in it, corresponding to the letter(s) in the parentheses besides the IPA symbol in the above chart. For example, the sound [ə] is usually written, in ''mehrileh'', as "eu".
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Diphthongs in mehrileh
! rowspan="2" |\/ First Component \/
! colspan="4" |\/ Second Component \/
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! colspan="2" |Front
!Central
!Back
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!Close (High)
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! Mid
|ɔɪ (/oy/)
|ɛɪ (/ehy/)
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!Open (Low)
| colspan="2" |aɪ (/ay/)
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''mehrileh'' contains 3 diphthongs<ref name=":0" /> which have evolved from a combination of vowels and the semi-vowel [j] in instances where such sounds were not followed by a vowel. The change was officially recognized and the language sheet updated by [[AmandaCC|FermentedAmanda]] on July 4th 2022<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/mehri/comments/vr7s8y/linguistic_update_concerning_phonemes_ay_aj_oy_%C9%94j/</ref>. In consequence to this small shift, the spelling of certain mehrileh words changed.
In theory, syllables in ''mehrileh'' allow for a maximum of three consonants in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable#Onset onset] and four in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable#Coda coda], with the onset being optional and the coda being mandatory; thus, words can never start with a vowel, nor can a vowel follow another, leading to the official absence of diphthongs in the language, although existing combinations of vowels and semi-vowels (such as [j] or [w]) may form diphthongs when spoken.
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As a rule, the sound [ʍ] may not appear in the coda of a syllable and may not cluster with other consonants. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable#Nucleus nucleus] of a syllable is always a vowel, and is mandatory. Additionally, when the sounds [ʁ] and [r] are present within one syllable of each other, [ʁ] becomes [r].
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