 Lardil has eight phonemically distinct vowels, differentiated by short and long variants at each of four places of articulation.Phonemic vowel length is an important feature of many Australian languages; minimal pairs in Lardil with a vowel length distinction include "waaka/waka" ‘crow’/’armpit’ and "thaldi/thaldii" ‘come here!’/’to stand up’.Long vowels are roughly twice as long as their short counterparts.