nasal (pre-stopped nasals) are realised as unreleased stops.
* is realised as a labiodental fricative in the syllable onset (before a vowel), and as bilabial in the syllable coda (in a consonant cluster).

Vowels

Lule Sámi possesses the following vowels:

* can be realised as a true diphthong, or a long monophthong .
* Long and the diphthongs and occur only in stressed syllables.
* Long and are very rare, as is short . They also only occur in stressed syllables.

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