vowel
ਸਵਰ
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.
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Vowels so marked are described as long, and unmarked vowels are short, a distinction known as 'vowel' length.
They are written with n following the 'vowel' letter: in en an un onün.
In contrast, 'vowel' letters are never omitted from words in text.
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.
Lavender was 75 years old, and produced 'vowel' sounds that have disappeared everywhere else.
The double consonant signifies that the preceding 'vowel' remains short.
If I understand the transliteration right, the 'vowel' quality would also be closer to American English cat than cot.
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.
The two men may share a 'vowel' at the end of their last name.
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.
Knowing that the first letter is a 'vowel' keeps solvers from pursuing a solution word beginning with a consonant.
The Lao alphabet also has 38 vowel symbols, representing 24 'vowel' sounds.
German can also put 'vowel' letter plus h as in ' autobahn '.
He had written but one word, three consonants and a single 'vowel' .
The rhythm and the 'vowelled' music of the long recitative presently acted upon one as a soporific.
Allowing for the omission of 'vowels' and the unknown letter, surely this was Rameses.
Even the name seems pregnant with significance - that defiant strangeness, those open, dreamy 'vowels' .
Stressed syllables retain full vowel quality, whereas unstressed syllables may have weak 'vowels' .
It was only later that these ambiguities were in large measure resolved by the creation of a system of pointing the consonantal text to represent the missing '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.
After blending consonants and 'vowels' , syllables are blended into words and words are used in meaningful sentences.
I erased the 'vowels' and double letters in order.
In Swahili, which is a Bantu language, 'vowels' are pronounced as they are in Spanish or Italian.
The Amharic alphabet is made up of 33 letters and has seven 'vowels' .
When his operas are sung in any other language, the shift in 'vowels' , consonants, and rhythms changes the character of the music.
Vitruvius's remarks show a sophisticated interest in the different acoustic behaviours of consonants and 'vowels' .
He has also learned the Greek alphabet, capital and lowercase, and has begun to make the distinction between consonants and 'vowels' .
I love the garrulous, argumentative people, with their speech, which boasts impressively rounded 'vowels' .
What specialists like Liberman are schooled in, is the rules for sound-shifts in 'vowels' and consonants in any language across the centuries.
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