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template. Legend: unrounded • rounded. A spectrogram of /y/. The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, [ 1 ] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is y , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y.
The long i could also be used to indicate the semivowel [j], e.g. IVSTVS or CVIIVS , [2] the latter also CVIVS , pronounced [ˈjʊstʊs, ˈkʊjːʊs]. It was also used to write a close allophone [i] of the short i phoneme, used before another vowel, as in CLAVDIO , representing [ˈklau̯.di.oː]. [3]
For those with happy-tensing accents, the final y in words ending -cy has the FLEECE vowel, and therefore so do inflected forms ending -cies or -cied (fancied, policies, etc.). If the vowel of NEAR (/ɪər/) is considered as "long e", then words ending -cier may also be exceptions.
Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound. The close front unrounded vowel, or high front unrounded vowel, [ 1 ] is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spoken languages, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol i. It is similar to the vowel sound in the English word meet —and often called ...
Y (consonant) Vowel. The letter Y was used to represent the sound /y/in Old English, so Latin u , y and i were all used to represent distinct vowel sounds. But, by the time of Middle English, /y/had lost its roundednessand became identical to i (/iː/and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had i were spelled with y , and vice versa. In ...
In some languages, including German and Portuguese, the name upsilon (Ypsilon in German, ípsilon in Portuguese) is used to refer to the Latin letter Y as well as the Greek letter. In some other languages, the (Latin) Y is referred to as a "Greek I" ( i griega in Spanish , i grec in French ), also noting its Greek origin.
Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin. This article largely deals with what features can be deduced for Classical Latin as it was spoken by the educated from the late Roman Republic to the early Empire. Evidence comes in the form of comments from Roman grammarians, common spelling mistakes, transcriptions into ...
The official chart of the IPA, revised in 2020. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.It was devised by the International Phonetic Association in the late 19th century as a standard written representation for the sounds of speech. [1]