vowel
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definition
noun
After blending consonants and vowels , syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
a speech sound that is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction and is a unit of the sound system of a language that forms the nucleus of a syllable.
translation of 'vowel'
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German can also put 'vowel' letter plus h as in ' autobahn '.
While the consonant cards each represent a single letter, the 'vowel' cards give a choice of two vowels and the wild cards represent any letter.
If I understand the transliteration right, the 'vowel' quality would also be closer to American English cat than cot.
Vowels so marked are described as long, and unmarked vowels are short, a distinction known as 'vowel' length.
In contrast, 'vowel' letters are never omitted from words in text.
Lavender was 75 years old, and produced 'vowel' sounds that have disappeared everywhere else.
The Lao alphabet also has 38 vowel symbols, representing 24 'vowel' sounds.
Knowing that the first letter is a 'vowel' keeps solvers from pursuing a solution word beginning with a consonant.
They are written with n following the 'vowel' letter: in en an un onün.
In Miami-Illinois, as in other Algonquian languages, 'vowel' length is phonemic, that is, it is an absolute determining factor in the shape and meaning of words.
He had written but one word, three consonants and a single 'vowel' .
The 'vowel' letter e can represent a variety of sounds.
The schwa sound represents a unique yet important construct for the developing reader in that it cannot easily be sounded out and is not represented by any one single 'vowel' letter.
The double consonant signifies that the preceding 'vowel' remains short.
The two men may share a 'vowel' at the end of their last name.
His voice is also surprisingly cultured, far more so in many ways than Jagger's flattened 'vowels' .
In Chinese pronunciation, basic 'vowels' can form vowel combinations with each other or with a nasal consonant.
The first complete alphabet, comprising symbols representing all the 'vowels' and consonants of a language, was devised by the ancient Greeks.
Vitruvius's remarks show a sophisticated interest in the different acoustic behaviours of consonants and 'vowels' .
In Guaraní, 12 vowels are distinguished, six oral vowels and six nasal 'vowels' .
The accumulated differences in the 'vowels' , consonants, and syllable lengths gives dramatic speech a totally different pace.
The Amharic alphabet is made up of 33 letters and has seven 'vowels' .
After blending consonants and 'vowels' , syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
In Swahili, which is a Bantu language, 'vowels' are pronounced as they are in Spanish or Italian.
What specialists like Liberman are schooled in, is the rules for sound-shifts in 'vowels' and consonants in any language across the centuries.
Allowing for the omission of 'vowels' and the unknown letter, surely this was Rameses.
I erased the 'vowels' and double letters in order.
He has also learned the Greek alphabet, capital and lowercase, and has begun to make the distinction between consonants and 'vowels' .
As far as I can see, it's strangely similar to the process that is used to engineer artificial languages out of 'vowelless' alphabets.
The vowel i is considered neutral and can therefore occur in both front and back 'voweled' words, but when i occurs in all syllables the word is considered to be front voweled.
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