| Consonant length is no longer phonemically distinctive in most Romance languages. |
| That is, phonetically they are consonants, but phonemically they behave as vowels. |
| The number of phonemically distinct vowels can be as low as two, as in Ubykh and Arrernte. |
| Many languages do not distinguish vowel length phonemically. |
| In languages with phonemically short and long vowels, diphthongs typically behave like long vowels, and are pronounced with a similar length. |
| Ramirez and Stoughton had both agreed with him that Easton's speech was phonemically identical to English. |
