In polysyllabic words, the front-back distinction is lost in reduced vowels: all become mid-central. The mid reduced vowels in an unstressed position are frequently elided, as in кеше "keşe" > 'person', or кышы "qışı" > '(his) winter'. Low back is rounded in the first syllable and after , but not in the last, as in бала "bala" 'child', балаларга "balalarğa" 'to children'. In Russian loans there are also , , , and , written the same as the native vowels: ы, е/э, о, а respectively.