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American English (9,063 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unrounding of the cot vowel, it results in lengthening and perhaps raising, merging the more recently separated vowel into the THOUGHT vowel in the following
California English (3,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
American". In fact, several vowel features first reported in the 1980s in urban coastal California—including the California Vowel Shift—are becoming common
Received Pronunciation (8,946 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pairings shown above include also differences in vowel quality. The vowels called "long" high vowels in RP /iː/ and /uː/ are slightly diphthongized, and
Kyrgyz language (1,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
backness of the following vowel—i.e. back vowels imply a uvular rendering and front vowels imply a velar rendering—and the vowel in suffixes is decided based
Manide language (1,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Low vowel fronting, back vowel fronting, and low vowel backing are all present in Manide. Fronting refers to a change in the articulation of a vowel with
Omega (2,528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o] , and the digraph ου which represented the long close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [oː]. In Modern Greek, both
Kazakh language (2,390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
other Turkic languages, Kazakh is an agglutinative language and employs vowel harmony. Kazakh builds words by adding suffixes one after another to the
Katakana (4,642 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
each system. Each kana represents either a vowel such as "a" (katakana ア); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (katakana カ); or "n" (katakana
Uyghur language (4,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages such as Uzbek. Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and
Inland Northern American English (4,923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
accent has since altered, due to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: its now-defining chain shift of vowels that began in the 1930s or possibly earlier. A 1969
Southern American English (8,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
age, ethnicity, etc. Southern Vowel Shift (sometimes simply called the Southern Shift): A chain shift regarding vowels is fully completed, or occurring
X (2,839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
/ks/ when it follows the stressed vowel (e.g. ox), and the voiced consonant /ɡz/ when it precedes the stressed vowel (e.g. exam). It is also pronounced
Niger–Congo languages (7,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowel instead of the [ATR] vowel of the root. The vowel inventory listed above is a ten-vowel language. This is a language in which all of the vowels
Bashkir language (1,237 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bashkir has nine native vowels, and three or four loaned vowels (mainly in Russian loanwords). Phonetically, the native vowels are approximately thus (with
Jehovah (10,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ('my Lord'). The Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and
Ilocano language (5,050 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
succeeding a vowel is read or not, for it is not written. Vowel apostrophes interchange between e or i, and o or u. Due to this, the vowels e and i are
Jehovah (10,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
came to be avoided, being substituted with Adonai ('my Lord'). The Hebrew vowel points of Adonai were added to the Tetragrammaton by the Masoretes, and
Germanic languages (9,575 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
numbers of vowel qualities. English has around 11–12 vowels in most dialects (not counting diphthongs), Standard Swedish has 17 pure vowels (monophthongs)
Arabic diacritics (4,213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to the reader to fill in the vowel sounds. Short consonants and long vowels are represented by letters, but short vowels and consonant length are not
Æ (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open front unrounded vowel (the sound represented by the 'a' in English words like cat). Diacritic
Breathy voice (1,230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
suggest), can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English /h/ between vowels, such as in the word behind, for some speakers. In the context of the Indo-Aryan
Assonance (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
switch, which contain the same vowel and similar consonants. If there is repetition of the same vowel or some similar vowels in literary work, especially
Arabic alphabet (5,778 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
required to be written; due to its optional use of diacritics to notate vowels, it is considered an impure abjad. The basic Arabic alphabet contains 28
Inuktitut Braille (759 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
it is a true alphabet, with separate letters for consonants and vowels, though vowels are written before the consonants they follow in speech. It was
Japanese Braille (1,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is a vowel-based abugida. That is, the glyphs are syllabic, but unlike kana they contain separate symbols for consonant and vowel, and the vowel takes
Middle English (5,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
particularly involving long vowels and diphthongs, which in the later Middle English period began to undergo the Great Vowel Shift. Little survives of early
Ü (1,309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
own right. In those cases it typically represents a close front rounded vowel [y] . Although not a part of their alphabet, Ü also appears in languages
Burushaski (5,274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Long vowels only ever appear in stressed syllables, and will thus carry one tone or the other. As for short vowels, mid vowels and open vowels [e], [o]
Ä (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
International Phonetic Alphabet, it represents the open central unrounded vowel. The letter Ä occurs as an independent letter in the Swedish, German, Luxembourgish
Proto-Slavic language (7,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rounding of back vowels was distinctive only between the vowels *y and *u. The other back vowels had optional non-distinctive rounding. The vowels described
Ojibwe writing systems (5,999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
use of doubled vowel symbols to represent long vowels that are paired with corresponding short vowels; a variant in which long vowels are represented
Ə (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
used to represent the mid central vowel or a schwa. It was invented by Johann Andreas Schmeller for the reduced vowel at the end of some German words and
Northern Sámi (10,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
phonetically as an epenthetic vowel. This vowel assimilates to the quality of the surrounding vowels: Between two rounded vowels (but not the diphthong /uo̯/)
Igbo language (5,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
features vowel harmony with two sets of oral vowels distinguished by pharyngeal cavity size described in terms of retracted tongue root (RTR). These vowels also
Greek diacritics (2,701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
"little children") with a simple vowel. A tonos and a diaeresis can be combined on a single vowel to indicate a stressed vowel after a hiatus, as in the verb
Kashmiri language (6,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Kashmiri (English: /kæʃˈmɪəri/
Kashmiri language (6,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Kashmiri (English: /kæʃˈmɪəri/
Nzadi language (572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ntaa. Nzadi contains seven contrastive vowels, which can be either long or short. The table below shows all the vowel phonemes found in the language: Unlike
Tatar language (3,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
interpretations of the Tatar vowel phonemic inventory. In total Tatar has nine or ten native vowels, and three or four loaned vowels (mainly in Russian loanwords)
A (Cyrillic) (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
unrounded vowel /a/. In Ingush and Chechen the Cyrillic letter А represents both the open back unrounded vowel /ɑ/ and the mid-central vowel /ə/. In Tuvan
Hote language (1,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
/ligiŋ/ "sickness" [ ' maŋ . gin ] /maŋgin/ "thorn" A close vowel is manifested as an open vowel when it occurs in closed syllables. Hote at Ethnologue (18th
Hiragana (4,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
one digraph) in each system. This may be a vowel such as /a/ (hiragana あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as /ka/ (か); or /N/ (ん), a nasal sonorant
Kerewe language (204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
prohibits vowel sequences: if a vowel sequence arises in the underlying representation of a phrase, the sequence becomes either a long vowel or a glide
Language game (707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
B-Sprache all work by adding a consonant after the vowel in each syllable, and then repeating the vowel. Thus, these could be classified in the Double Talk
Sandhi (2,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
beginning with vowels) and Italian raddoppiamento fonosintattico (lengthening of initial consonants of words after certain words ending in vowels). It may be
Soft sign (1,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or reduced front vowel. However, over time, the specific vowel sound it denoted was largely eliminated and merged with other vowel sounds. In most contemporary
Omicron (1,729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represented the close-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [o] in contrast to omega which represented the open-mid back rounded vowel IPA: [ɔː] and the digraph ου which
Waw (letter) (2,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations
Syllabic consonant (1,974 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages have syllabic fricatives or fricative vowels. In several varieties of Chinese, certain high vowels following fricatives or affricates are pronounced
Dzongkha Braille (211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
English Braille. When a vowel occurs at the beginning of a word, the vowel letter is carried by a null consonant ཨ ⟨⠁⟩: Sanskrit vowel-marking includes: ⠁⠸⠪
I (Cyrillic) (1,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
front unrounded vowel /i/ (e.g., in Russian), like the pronunciation of ⟨i⟩ in "machine", or the near-close near-front unrounded vowel /ɪ/, (e.g., in Ukrainian)
Lingala (3,515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
missionaries in particular. It has a seven-vowel system (/a/ /e/ /ɛ/ /i/ /o/ /ɔ/ /u/) with an obligatory tense-lax vowel harmony. It also has a full range of
Gemination (4,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
geminated consonant is always preceded by a short vowel, while an ungeminated consonant is preceded by a long vowel. Lengthened fricatives, nasals, laterals,
Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (913 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Indian Standard Code for Information
Choctaw language (4,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The voiceless stops /p/, /t/, and /k/ may become partially voiced between vowels, especially /k/ and for male speakers. Also, the voiceless stops are slightly
Ye (Cyrillic) (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
In some languages this letter is called E. It commonly represents the vowel [e] or [ɛ], like the pronunciation of ⟨e⟩ in "yes". It was derived from
Gallo-Romance languages (2,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
unstressed final vowels other than /-a/ (most significantly, final /-o/ and /-e/ were lost). However, when the loss of a final vowel would result in an
Rhoticity in English (9,513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
postvocalic environments: when it is immediately after a vowel and not followed by another vowel. For example, in isolation, a rhotic English speaker pronounces
Iota (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
very small ι under the main vowel. Examples include ᾼ ᾳ ῌ ῃ ῼ ῳ. The former diphthongs became digraphs for simple vowels in Koine Greek. The word is used
Yodh (1,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages for which it is used; in many languages, it also serves as a long vowel, representing /iː/.[citation needed] The Phoenician letter gave rise to
Western American English (3,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
accents by fronting /u/ (the GOOSE vowel), and from both by consistently showing the low back merger (the merger of the vowel sounds in words like cot and caught)
H (2,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as a voiceless vowel. That is, when the phoneme /h/ precedes a vowel, /h/ may be realized as a voiceless version of the subsequent vowel. For example,
Latin phonology and orthography (8,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and V (a short vowel), VV (a long vowel or diphthong). Every short vowel, long vowel, or diphthong belongs to a single syllable. This vowel forms the syllable
Mid-Atlantic accent (4,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the BATH vowel does not retract and merge with the back vowel of PALM. It is only lowered from the near-open vowel [æ] to the fully open vowel [a]. It
Ø (1,681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as [ø] and [œ] , except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe]
Phonological history of English open back vowels (2,980 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The phonology of the open back vowels of the English language has undergone changes both overall and with regional variations, through Old and Middle English
H (2,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as a voiceless vowel. That is, when the phoneme /h/ precedes a vowel, /h/ may be realized as a voiceless version of the subsequent vowel. For example,
Western American English (3,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
accents by fronting /u/ (the GOOSE vowel), and from both by consistently showing the low back merger (the merger of the vowel sounds in words like cot and caught)
Boyd's syllabic shorthand (327 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
distinguished both by orientation and by shape, with the shape representing the vowel and the orientation the consonant. Thus, "ab" and "am" would be represented
Ø (1,681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Southern Sámi languages. It is mostly used to represent the mid front rounded vowels, such as [ø] and [œ] , except for Southern Sámi where it is used as an [oe]
Tiberian Hebrew (2,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dividing the graphic signs into "short" and "long" vowels. The values assigned to the Tiberian vowel signs reveals a Sephardi tradition of pronunciation
Mid-Atlantic accent (4,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the BATH vowel does not retract and merge with the back vowel of PALM. It is only lowered from the near-open vowel [æ] to the fully open vowel [a]. It
Tiberian vocalization (706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
used to vocalize other Hebrew texts as well. Tiberian vocalization marks vowels and stress, distinguishes consonant quality and length, and serves as punctuation
Sinhala language (4,843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
3rd century BCE. The language of these inscriptions, still retaining long vowels and aspirated consonants, is a Prakrit similar to Magadhi, a regional associate
Australian English (9,415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the phonetic quality of its vowels. The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length. The long vowels, which include monophthongs and
Ulumandaʼ language (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
preceding back vowel unlike original *-ŋ. These fronted vowels then fronted any other back vowels in a word except if a neutral vowel like *e or *i intervened
Northwest Caucasian languages (1,957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
paired with a lack of vowel distinctions, often providing archetypical cases of vertical vowel systems, also known as "linear" vowel systems. Linguistic
Neveʻei language (6,947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Neveʻei in the average range regarding vowels (5-6) as well as regarding consonants (22 ± 3). The consonant-vowel ratio classifies Neveʻei in the low band
Thaana (1,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(diacritics, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), with consonants derived from indigenous and Arabic numerals, and vowels derived
Naueti language (345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inventories. The vowel system is straightforward with vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/ and /u/. There is no distinctive vowel length, as vowel sequences are heterosyllabic
Babylonian vocalization (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
niqqud Hebrew: נִקּוּד בָּבְלִי‎) is a system of diacritics (niqqud) and vowel symbols assigned above the text and devised by the Masoretes of Babylon
Kipchak languages (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
"water") In both Tatar and Bashkir, the original mid and high vowels are swapped in position by vowel raising and lowering: The Kipchak languages may be broken
Siar-Lak language (558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pronounced in between the high vowel /I/ and the mid vowel /E/, as well as /ọ/ being in between the high vowel /U/ and the mid vowel /O/, according to the native
White South African English phonology (2,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Cape Town. He transcribes this vowel with ⟨ɜ⟩, which is defined as an additional mid central vowel on the 1989 IPA vowel chart. In this article, the symbol
Sarah Vowell (2,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven
Rhyme (4,890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rhyme the last stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical in both words. If the sound preceding the stressed vowel is also identical, the rhyme
Tibetan Braille (422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
braille, with some extensions from international usage. As in print, the vowel a is not written. Despite Tibetan and Dzongkha (Bhutanese) using the same
Vowel breaking (1,872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
linguistics, vowel breaking, vowel fracture, or diphthongization is the sound change of a monophthong into a diphthong or triphthong. Vowel breaking may
Northern Qiang language (1,933 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
big': 32  Vowel harmony exists in the Mawo (麻窝) dialect. Typically, vowel harmony is used to match a preceding syllable's vowel with the succeeding vowel or
Mwotlap language (1,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
before syncope of unstressed vowels, it always fell on the penultimate syllable. When syncope took place, the stressed vowel became part of the last syllable
Germanic strong verb (12,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
verb is a verb that marks its past tense by means of changes to the stem vowel. A minority of verbs in any Germanic language are strong; the majority are
Valencian language (10,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
realised as mid vowels [e̞, o̞] in some cases. This occurs more often with /o/ (e.g. amor [aˈmo̞ɾ] 'love'). Open vowels The so-called "open vowels", /ɛ/ and
Siar-Lak language (558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pronounced in between the high vowel /I/ and the mid vowel /E/, as well as /ọ/ being in between the high vowel /U/ and the mid vowel /O/, according to the native
Virama (711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with every consonant letter, commonly used as a generic
Russian phonology (8,960 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Russian describe it as having five vowel phonemes, though there is some dispute over whether a sixth vowel, /ɨ/, is separate from /i/. Russian has
Formant (2,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Front vowels have higher F2, while low vowels have higher F1. Lip rounding tends to lower F1 and F2 in back vowels and F2 and F3 in front vowels. Nasal
Kuot language (1,082 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tok Pisin instead. The vowels /i/ and /u/ tend to become glide-vowels in occurrence with other vowels. The length of the vowels is not making differences
Egyptian Arabic (10,644 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
cases: treatment of originally long vowels that become short or deleted as a result of vowel shortening or vowel deletion, e.g. the feminine active participle
Ambonese Malay (5,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
noticed word-initially, morpheme-initially after a vowel, and morpheme-medially between like vowels (van Minde 1997, p. 24). Examples are (p. 24): /’ose/
Võro language (1,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowels; suffixes automatically adapt the backness of the vowels depending on the type of vowels found in the word it is attached to. Neutral vowels can
Cebuano language (5,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
unrounded vowel similar to English "bed" /i/ a close front unrounded vowel similar to English "machine" /o/ a close-mid back rounded vowel similar to
Urdu alphabet (3,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
it can represent another vowel, holding a vowel diacritic that would normally be held by the consonant preceding the vowel, for examble اُردو "Urdu"
Limbu script (784 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
default, vowel. In Limbu, the inherent vowel is /ɔ/, as in Bengali–Assamese and Odia scripts. To start a syllable with a vowel, the appropriate vowel diacritic
Hawu language (1,454 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dialects have /ʄ/. Vowels are /i u e ə o a/, with /ə/ written ⟨è⟩ in common orthography. Phonetic long vowels and diphthongs are vowel sequences. The penultimate
Bengali–Assamese script (2,449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
total of 11 vowel letters, used to represent the seven vowel sounds of Bengali and eight vowel sounds of Assamese, along with a number of vowel diphthongs
Bengali Braille (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.) In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e. The braille letter
Gabelsberger shorthand (224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
consonants and vowels. The consonant signs were made by simplifying the features of cursive Latin letters. The vowel signs are used mainly when a vowel stands
Syncope (phonology) (612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel. It is found in both synchronic and diachronic analyses of languages. Its
Jita language (1,333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
affects the quality of vowels in verbal suffixes, so that only the root-initial vowel of verbs contrasts for vowel quality. Vowel length is neutralized
Thematic vowel (2,858 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel *e or *o from ablaut placed before the ending of a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word
Veps language (2,755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowel harmony but in a much more limited form. Words are split into back-vowel and front-vowel words based on which vowels they contain: Back vowels:
Bajan English (423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
default [ɪ]. The DRESS vowel /ɛ/ is [ɛ]. The TRAP vowel /æ/ is usually [a]. The LOT vowel /ɒ/ is usually [ɑ] or [ɒ]. The STRUT vowel /ʌ/ is the same as in
Eastern New England English (3,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dropping r when not before a vowel; both variants of Canadian raising, including a fairly back starting position of the /aʊ/ vowel (as in MOUTH); and some
O (Cyrillic) (827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Russian, O is used word-initially, after another vowel, and after non-palatalized consonants. Because of a vowel reduction processes, the Russian /o/ phoneme
Sinhala script (3,436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Sinhala script (Sinhala:
Romanization of Hebrew (4,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate
Í (331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tatar, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian
Amharic (6,678 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
out of the Geʽez script. The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (አቡጊዳ). The graphemes
Chru language (499 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
infixation of -n-. The vowel inventory is given in the following table. All vowels but [eː, o, oː] exist in nasalized form. a The vowel [eː] is always followed
U (Cyrillic) (473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
letter of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the close back rounded vowel /u/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨oo⟩ in "boot" or "rule". The forms
English irregular verbs (4,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Germanic strong verbs, which make many of their inflected forms through vowel gradation, as can be observed in Modern English patterns such as sing–sang–sung
Romanization of Hebrew (4,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics. The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate
Whitespace character (2,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Width box May break? In IDN? Script Block General category Notes mongolian vowel separator U+180E 6158 ᠎ Yes No Mongolian Mongolian Other, Format MVS. A
General American English (5,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
shorter vowel sound than prize and bride), raising and gliding of pre-nasal /æ/ (with man having a higher and tenser vowel sound than map), the weak vowel merger
Nez Perce language (2,768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Perce language is far from assured. The phonology of Nez Perce includes vowel harmony (which was mentioned in Noam Chomsky & Morris Halle's The Sound
Manchu language (17,097 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages, Manchu is an agglutinative language that demonstrates limited vowel harmony. It has been demonstrated that it is derived mainly from the Jurchen
Ò (363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
any vowel to indicate word-final stress: Niccolò (equivalent of Nicholas and the forename of Machiavelli). It can also be used on the nonfinal vowels o
Yu (Cyrillic) (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
the close central rounded vowel, as in 'rude'. Before a hard consonant or at the end of a word, the result is a back vowel [u], as in "pool". Apart from
Lao language (7,614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The glottal stop appears at the end when no final follows a short vowel. All vowels make a phonemic length distinction. Diphthongs are all centering diphthongs
Telugu language (11,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
combine with other vowel signs, the vowel part is indicated orthographically using signs known as vowel "mātras". The shapes of vowel "mātras" are also
Í (331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tatar, Czech, and Slovak languages, where it often indicates a long /i/ vowel (ee in English word feel). This form also appears in Catalan, Irish, Italian
Monophthongization (860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift. It is also known as ungliding, as diphthongs are also known as gliding vowels. In languages that have undergone
Chōonpu (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Unicode Consortium, is a Japanese symbol that indicates a chōon, or a long vowel of two morae in length. Its form is a horizontal or vertical line in the
Kensiu language (3,762 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
mid counterparts /e, ə, o/. Vowel description The vowels listed below do not include nasalized vowels. Nasalized vowels are marked by a tilde, e.g. /ĩ/
French language (13,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
que, drop their final vowel when placed before a word that begins with a vowel sound (thus avoiding a hiatus). The missing vowel is replaced by an apostrophe
Saurashtra script (1,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Saurashtra script is an
Cherokee language (8,182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
aspirated before any vowel in Sequoyah script. Ex: ᏌᏊ saquu [saàɡʷu], ᏆᎾ quana [kʷʰana]. There are six short vowels and six long vowels in the Cherokee inventory
Sotho language (1,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rare form of vowel-height (alternatively, advanced tongue root) harmony. In total, the language contains some 39 consonantal and 9 vowel phonemes. It
Welsh English (2,871 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
since 1985. The vowel of cat /æ/ is pronounced either as an open front unrounded vowel [a] or a more central near-open front unrounded vowel [æ̈]. In Cardiff
Alphabet (6,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represent both consonants and vowels—from both abugidas and abjads, which only need letters for consonants. Abjads generally lack vowel indicators altogether
Yemenite Hebrew (13,459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
distinct Jewish flavor, inclusive of pronouncing many Arabic words with vowels foreign to the Arabic language, e.g., the qamatz (Hebrew: קָמַץ) and tzere
Ikwerre language (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ikwerre exhibits two kinds of vowel harmony: Every vowel in an Ikwerre word, with a few exceptions, agrees with the other vowels in the word as to the presence
Batak script (969 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
has an inherent vowel of /a/, unless there is a diacritic (in Toba Batak called pangolat) to indicate the lack of a vowel. Other vowels, final ŋ, and final
Fwe language (2,024 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
FV:final vowel The Fwe language, also known as Chifwe, is a Bantu language spoken by the Fwe people (Mafwe or Bafwe) in Namibia and Zambia. It is closely
Kulitan (768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
segmental writing system in wherein consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit and possess an inherent vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical
Old Javanese (4,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ends in a vowel and the next word in the same sentence begins with a vowel, both words may merge into one, with one vowel instead of two vowels, such as
Tosk Albanian (432 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Nasal vowels: There is a lack of nasal vowels in Tosk (e.g. sy "eye") and Late Proto-Albanian *â plus a nasal becomes ë (e.g. nëntë "nine"). e-vowel: The
Kulitan (768 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
segmental writing system in wherein consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit and possess an inherent vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical
Greek orthography (1,589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
two vowels is hyphenated with the succeeding vowel. C2: A sequence of two consonants between two vowels is hyphenated with the succeeding vowel, if a
Javanese script (6,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
whole inventory of vowels. Only short vowels and vowel diacritics are taught and used in contemporary Javanese, while long vowels and their diacritics
Å (2,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
pronunciation [oː]). Medieval writing often used doubled letters for long vowels, and the vowel continued to be written Aa. In Old Swedish the use of the ligature
Saaroa language (1,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
four vowels: |i, ɨ, u, a|. The basic syllable pattern in Saaroa is (C)V, where C stands for consonants and V for vowels or long vowels. Vowels can either
Buwal language (269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a solely epenthetic vowel. These vowels occur as rounded allophones when adjacent to a labialized consonant, and as front vowels when the word is palatalized
Gothic language (10,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
alone only for long higher vowels, using the digraphs ai and au (much as in French) for the corresponding short or lower vowels. There are two variant spelling
Sarati (830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
than vowels, and vowels were considered merely modifiers. When writing Quenya, the sign for "a" is usually omitted, as it is the most common vowel in Quenya
Kalaw Lagaw Ya (11,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
speaking, the process is not final vowel devoicing, but rather stressed vowel lengthening accompanied by final vowel devoicing — except in the case of
Icelandic phonology (4,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Between vowels: only [k ɣ c j]. After a vowel, finally or before [v] or [r]: only [kʰ ɣ]. After a vowel, before [ð]: only [ɣ]. After a vowel, before [l]:
Oe (Cyrillic) (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
languages. In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ or /œ/. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express /wʉ/. In Mongolic
à (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
nasalized open front unrounded vowel ([ã]). In Aromanian, it is pronounced as mid-central vowel ([ə]) or close central unrounded vowel ([ɨ]). In Vietnamese, it
Scouse (3,384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the current mainstream pronunciation is close to [eː], as shown on the vowel chart. Other allophones include [ɛː], [ɪː], [ɘː], [əː] and [ɜː] as well
North American English (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
higher vowel sound than prize and bride), the weak vowel merger (with affected and effected often pronounced the same), at least one of the LOT vowel mergers
Karay-a language (1,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
revitalization The vowel "u" is called matig-a nga "o" (the hard "o"). Hence, when a syllable with a vowel is pronounced lightly, the vowel "i" is substituted
Maya script (5,826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
written, which meant that an extra vowel was written as well. This was typically an "echo" vowel that repeated the vowel of the previous syllable. For example
Saban English (1,109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The STRUT vowel can merge with the THOUGHT vowel, being pronounced as [ɔ]. The FOOT vowel can be pronounced as [ʊ~ʌ] or [ʌ]. The FLEECE vowel is pronounced
Chuvash language (8,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowel of the word is stressed; if there are no full vowels, the first vowel is stressed. Reduced vowels that precede or follow a stressed full vowel are
Kawi script (1,306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with an inherent vowel. Diacritics are used, either to suppress the vowel and represent a pure consonant, or to represent other vowels. The Kawi script
Litzlitz language (769 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
short vowels and three long vowels, as shown below in the table. Only the high and low vowels have corresponding long forms, with the three mid vowels having
Ë (1,824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(schwa), a mid central vowel. In Afrikaans, the trema (Afrikaans: deelteken, [ˈdiəl.tiəkən]) is used mostly to indicate that two vowels are pronounced separately
Epsilon (2,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel IPA: [e̞] or IPA: [ɛ̝]. In the system of Greek numerals it also has the
É (1,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
types. For example: in a sentence that repeats a word (that contains the vowel e) with different meaning or specificity, the e in one of the occurrences
Ó (715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the mid rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ɵ/ as in "tór" [t̶ɵr̶] 'background' In Dutch, the acute Ó accent is used
Aleut language (5,894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
/i/ in the vowel space. The long vowel /aː/ is pronounced retracted in the vowel space creating a significant distinction relative to the vowel length of
Wagiman language (4,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
top-end, Wagiman has a standard five-vowel system. However, a system of vowel harmony indicates that two sets of vowels are closely associated with each other
Tapirapé language (705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
six vowel system in the family. All five vowels have five nasal counterparts. The phoneme /a/ is realised as a close front unrounded vowel. The vowel /ɨ/
Epsilon (2,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front unrounded vowel IPA: [e̞] or IPA: [ɛ̝]. In the system of Greek numerals it also has the
History of French (9,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
simple five-vowel system /a e i o u/. In French, however, numerous sound changes resulted in a system with 12–14 oral vowels and 3–4 nasal vowels (see French
Karay-a language (1,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
revitalization The vowel "u" is called matig-a nga "o" (the hard "o"). Hence, when a syllable with a vowel is pronounced lightly, the vowel "i" is substituted
Oe (Cyrillic) (436 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
languages. In Turkic languages, it commonly represents the front rounded vowels /ø/ or /œ/. In Kazakh and Karakalpak, it may also express /wʉ/. In Mongolic
North American English (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
higher vowel sound than prize and bride), the weak vowel merger (with affected and effected often pronounced the same), at least one of the LOT vowel mergers
Anusvara (1,662 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
morpheme boundary, or of /n/ within morphemes, when it was preceded by a vowel and followed by a fricative (/ś/, /ṣ/, /s/, /h/). In later Sanskrit its
Aleut language (5,894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
/i/ in the vowel space. The long vowel /aː/ is pronounced retracted in the vowel space creating a significant distinction relative to the vowel length of
Wagiman language (4,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
top-end, Wagiman has a standard five-vowel system. However, a system of vowel harmony indicates that two sets of vowels are closely associated with each other
Kawi script (1,306 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with an inherent vowel. Diacritics are used, either to suppress the vowel and represent a pure consonant, or to represent other vowels. The Kawi script
Sotho phonology (5,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages. There are in total 39 consonantal phonemes (plus 2 allophones) and 9 vowel phonemes (plus two close raised allophones). The consonants include a rich
Hebrew Braille (885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
thus obligatory in print, vowels are optional in braille just as they are in print. When they are written, braille vowels are full letters rather than
Maasai language (1,963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
combinations of vowels co-occur in the same word (i.e. vowel harmony), with the vowel /a/ being "neutral" in this system. In Maasai, advanced tongue vowels only
Kazakh Short U (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the Kazakh language, where it represents the near-close near-back rounded vowel /ʊ/, like the pronunciation of the ⟨oo⟩ in "book". In other circumstances
Kaluli language (995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
consonant and vowel inventories, Kaluli is a typologically typical language. It features a traditional seven vowel system, with a vowel height and rounding
Bari language (390 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Kutuk ('mother tongue') rather than Bari. Bari is a tone language. It has vowel harmony, subject–verb–object word order, and agglutinative verbal morphology
É (1,709 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
types. For example: in a sentence that repeats a word (that contains the vowel e) with different meaning or specificity, the e in one of the occurrences
Konjo language (Bantu) (229 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
is indicated by the prefix eri- (before a consonant) or ery- (before a vowel). For example: ery'asa ("to come"). Konjo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mansi languages (1,027 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
velars adjacent to rounded vowels. In particular, Proto-Mansi *yK → Core Mansi *æKʷ (a form of transphonologization). The vowel systems across Mansi show
Kumyk language (2,595 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
consonants. Vowels, of which there exists a relatively large number of them in Turkic languages, and in Kumyk in particular (8 or 9 vowels) were rarely
Zulu language (5,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
standard Zulu is often not understood by young people. The vowel system of Zulu consists of five vowels. /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ are pronounced [e] and [o], respectively
Tapirapé language (705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
six vowel system in the family. All five vowels have five nasal counterparts. The phoneme /a/ is realised as a close front unrounded vowel. The vowel /ɨ/
Short I (Cyrillic) (638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
letter of the alphabet until the 1930s. Because ⟨Й⟩ was considered to be a vowel and not a consonant, it was not required to take a hard sign when it came
Seneca language (4,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
be subclassified into the oral vowels /i/, /e/, /æ/, /a/, and /o/, and the nasalized vowels /ɛ/ and /ɔ/. Of these vowels, /æ/ is relatively rare, an innovation
Bequia English (505 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
gʲa:d]. The vowels in Kit and Dress are usually [ɪ] and [ɛ], and the vowel in Kit is sometimes lowered to [ɛ] (miracle: [mɛɹəkl]). The vowel in Trap is
Leti language (1,599 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowels can also occur long; the phonemic status of long vowels hangs on the interpretation of Leti's pervasive metathetic processes. The mid vowels /e
Warlpiri language (1,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
standard three-vowel system, similar to that of Classical Arabic, with a phonemic length distinction creating a total of six possible vowels. The phoneme
Uzbek language (4,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
languages is the rounding of the vowel /ɑ/ to /ɒ/ under the influence of Persian. Unlike other Turkic languages, vowel harmony is almost completely lost
Nepalese scripts (1,899 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with certain vowel diacritics or included in a consonant cluster. Letter bha and ha changes appearance when combined with any of the vowel diacritics u
Lepcha script (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
inherent vowel. In Lepcha, the inherent vowel is /a/. To start a syllable with a vowel, the appropriate vowel diacritic is added to the vowel-carrier ᰣ‎
Margi language (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Maddieson (1987), Margi is noted for having a vertical vowel system, with only two phonemic vowels, /ɨ/ and /a/, in native vocabulary. Loan words also distinguish
French orthography (3,523 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in a complicated relationship between spelling and sound, especially for vowels; a multitude of silent letters; and many homophones, e.g.
Ï (309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
used when ⟨i⟩ follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word. It indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate
Alsatian dialect (1,568 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
long vowel "V" = Long Vowel (LV). e.g., hà, sì A vowel followed by a single consonant in a syllable is pronounced as a long vowel "V + C" = Long Vowel (LV)
Tamil phonology (3,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. This article contains phonetic
Maranao language (1,542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Maranao has four vowel phonemes that can become more close or higher when in certain environments (see hard consonants below). The vowel raising effects
Mongolic languages (3,300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
VjV sequences where the second vowel was any vowel but *i were monophthongized. In noninitial syllables, short vowels were deleted from the phonetic representation
Proto-Greek language (6,790 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
intervocalic and prevocalic positions (between two vowels, or if word-initial and followed by a vowel). Loss of prevocalic *s was not completed entirely
Unami language (3,753 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
regularization. The PEA vowel system consisted of four long vowels *i·, *o·, *e·, *a·, and two short vowels *a and ə. The vowel history is as follows:
Arapaho language (4,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with a vowel, so where the underlying form of a word begins with a vowel, a prothetic [h] is added. Arapaho has a series of four short vowels /i e o u/
Ï (309 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
used when ⟨i⟩ follows another vowel and indicates hiatus in the pronunciation of such a word. It indicates that the two vowels are pronounced in separate
Serer language (1,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
vowel diacritic can be dropped. It cannot, as there 5 vowels and not 3. For vowel "a" (◌َ), the vowel is lengthened (aa) with an alif (ا) For vowels "e"
Margi language (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Maddieson (1987), Margi is noted for having a vertical vowel system, with only two phonemic vowels, /ɨ/ and /a/, in native vocabulary. Loan words also distinguish
Wade–Giles (2,394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
serves to distinguish the front vowel [y] from the back vowel [u]. By contrast it is always present to mark the front vowel in Wade–Giles.) Because yü (as
Modern Hebrew phonology (2,618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
and transcription delimiters. Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels, depending on the speaker and the analysis. Hebrew has been used primarily
Neapolitan language (2,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sound as an r sound (rhotacism) at the beginning of a word or between two vowels: e.g. doje (feminine) or duje (masculine), meaning "two", is pronounced
Lau language (1,757 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
columns for vowel height, namely high, mid, and low, and three rows for vowel backness, namely front, central, and back. “The [+ATR] vowel quality is dominant
Lule Sami (1,695 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
with another vowel, these vowels remain distinct. The following table shows the different patterns that occur with different following vowels: The second
Maranao language (1,542 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Maranao has four vowel phonemes that can become more close or higher when in certain environments (see hard consonants below). The vowel raising effects
Tamil phonology (3,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. This article contains phonetic
Ditema tsa Dinoko (1,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to vowel height or frontedness, with high vowels /i/ and /u/ pointing upwards and the low vowel /a/ pointing downwards. Likewise, the front vowels /ɛ/
Warlpiri language (1,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
standard three-vowel system, similar to that of Classical Arabic, with a phonemic length distinction creating a total of six possible vowels. The phoneme
Zanabazar square script (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represents a syllable with an inherent vowel /a/. The vowel can be changed by adding a diacritic to the consonant. Only the vowel /a/ is written as an independent
Yery with diaeresis (130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
where it represents a fronted mid central vowel /ə̟/, which is the front counterpart of the mid central vowel /ə/ (represented by ы). It also appears in
Bhutia language (3,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Without proper rendering support, you may see very small fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. Sikkimese (Tibetan:
Chakma script (1,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
characters, and a visible vowel killer shows the deletion of the inherent vowel when there is no conjunct. Four independent vowels exist: 𑄃 a, 𑄄 i, 𑄅 u
Hungarian language (10,324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
14 vowel phonemes and 30 consonant phonemes (or 31, it depends on the dialect). The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels such
Õ (621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
represents a vowel characteristic of Estonian, the unrounded back vowel /ɤ/, which may be close-mid back, close back, or close-mid central. The vowel was previously
Amarasi language (2,525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
contains 13 consonants and 5 vowels. Words that begin with a vowel are spoken with a glottal stop before the initial vowel sound. This initial glottal
English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ (4,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. A number of these changes are specific to vowels which occur before /l/
Kimbundu (646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in cases of tonal sandhi. There is vowel harmony in two groups (the high vowels /i, u/ and the mid and low vowels /e, o, a/) that applies only for verbal
West Makian language (656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Malay, Ternate, Dutch, and potentially Portuguese. West Makian has 5 or 6 vowels: /a, e, ə, i, o/, and /u/, with /ə/ not recorded by Watuseke. Voorhoeve
Niuean language (2,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
rearticulated vowel; the sound is distinct from one long vowel. Both short and long vowels can occur in any position. All short vowels may combine with
Luiseño language (1,473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lengths. Short: The basic vowel length. In writing, this is the standard value of a given vowel, e.g. ⟨a⟩. Long: The vowel is held twice as long but with
Oghuz languages (883 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people. The three languages with the largest number
Swedish dialects (775 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
many ways), and Öland. Examples of Götaland dialect features are vowel reduction, vowel shortening in front of endings and loss of -r in suffixes (as in
Kimbundu (646 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
in cases of tonal sandhi. There is vowel harmony in two groups (the high vowels /i, u/ and the mid and low vowels /e, o, a/) that applies only for verbal
Bernese German phonology (1,160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
length opposition in all vowels except [ə]. Unlike in standard German, there is no interdependence of vowel length and vowel quality. Bernese German has
Upsilon (1,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(a close back rounded vowel like the English "long o͞o"). In Classical Greek, it was pronounced [y] (a close front rounded vowel), at least until 1030
English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ (4,338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. A number of these changes are specific to vowels which occur before /l/
Khmer Braille (434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
is divided into consonant letters, consonant diacritics (conjuncts), and vowel diacritics. (That is, the Khmer alphabet is an abugida.) In braille Khmer
Standard Canadian English (3,636 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
defined by the cot–caught merger to [ɒ] and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, which is called the Canadian Shift. A subset of the dialect geographically
Faroese phonology (1,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
front rounded vowels and vowel quality changes instead of vowel length distinctions. /yː/ and /aː/ appear only in loanwords. The long mid vowels /eː, øː, oː/
I-mutation (756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or i/j-umlaut) is a type of sound change in which a back vowel is fronted or a front vowel is raised if the following syllable contains /i/, /iː/ or
Abercraf English (1,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Port Talbot, consonants can be geminated by any preceding vowel except long non-close vowels, and is most noticeable in fortis plosives and when they are
Moroccan Arabic (8,083 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
boundary), i.e. when appearing as the last vowel of a word. When /ə/ is not deleted, it is pronounced as a very short vowel, tending towards [ɑ] in the vicinity
Ă (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter
Bay Islands English (836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for the FERN vowel, while [ï] is also the most common pronunciation for the FIR vowel.) Some Utila speakers also realize the FUR vowel as [ɔ], although
Scottish Gaelic orthography (1,051 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
or Gaelic type: ⟨a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n, o, p, r, s, t, u⟩ Vowels may be accented with a grave accent but accented letters are not considered
Southern Sámi (1,827 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
syllable. The eleven vowel phonemes comprise four phonologically short and long vowels (i-i:, e-e:, a-a:, u-u:) and three vowel phonemes which do not
Kharosthi (2,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
usual vowel order for Indic scripts /a i u e o/. There is no diacritic form of this vowel as consonants include an inherent /a/ or /ə/ vowel. The vowels ⟨𐨅⟩
Central Pashto (745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
additional vowels close-mid central rounded vowel /ɵ/ and open back rounded vowel /ɒː / in Apridi. The following vowel shift has been noted by Jdosef Elfenbein:
Guarani language (4,193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
marks stressed nasalisation when used over a vowel (as in Portuguese): ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ, ỹ. (Nasal vowels have been written with several other diacritics:
Keres language (3,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Keresan vowels have a phonemic distinction in duration: all vowels can be long or short. Additionally, short vowels can also be voiceless. The vowel chart
Boston accent (3,145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
most other American accents, the Boston accent merges it with the "aw" vowel (as in THOUGHT). Thus, lot, paw, caught, cot, law, wand, rock, talk, doll
Philadelphia English (5,701 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
a high /ɔ/ vowel (which helps to maintain a contrast between words like cot and caught) as well as a phonemic split of the short a vowel, /æ/ (causing
Koasati language (2,967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
system, long vowels are written by doubling the vowel (e.g., [aː] as aa), and nasalized vowels are underlined (e.g., [õ] or [ǫ] as o̱). Vowel length in Koasati
Hajong language (1,222 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ambiguous whether the final vowel is a phoneme or an allophone of [a] in the environment of other close vowels. The extra vowel /ɯ/ does not occur in other
Lyngngam language (264 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
following pairs of cognates: The following table lists the vowel inventory of the language. The only vowels showing a length distinction are /i/ and /a/, in contradistinction
Umlaut (diacritic) (2,088 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example [a], [ɔ], and [ʊ] as [ɛ], [œ], and [ʏ]).
Cherokee syllabary (3,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The first six characters represent isolated vowel syllables. Characters for combined consonant and vowel syllables then follow. The charts below show
Uralic languages (7,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
synonymous. Uralic languages are known for their often complex case systems and vowel harmony. Proposed homelands of the Proto-Uralic language include: The vicinity
Proto-Uralic language (3,570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
had vowel harmony and a rather large inventory of vowels in initial syllables, much like the modern Finnish or Estonian system: Sometimes a mid vowel
Meteg (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
secondary stress and vowel length. Meteg is also sometimes used in Biblical Hebrew to mark a long vowel. While short and long vowels are largely allophonic
Kyrgyz phonology (797 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the phonology and phonetics of the Kyrgyz language. Notes on vowel quality: Kyrgyz vowel space is different in affixes and stems. Washington (2007) describes
Esperanto phonology (5,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(including ĥ /x/, which has become rare, and 4 affricates) 11 vowels (5 simple vowels and 6 diphthongs). A few additional sounds found in loan words
Vowel reduction in Russian (1,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
some words. There are five vowel phonemes in Standard Russian. Vowels tend to merge when they are unstressed. The vowels /a/ and /o/ have the same unstressed
Trap–bath split (2,053 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
split Problems playing this file? See media help. The TRAP–BATH split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received