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  2. Close front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Close front rounded vowel. 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.

  3. Vowel - Wikipedia

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    The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal" (i.e. relating to the voice). [2] In English, the word vowel is commonly used to refer both to vowel sounds and to the written symbols that represent them ( a , e , i , o , u , and sometimes w and y ). [3]

  4. Y - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters a, e, i, o, u , as well as y , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters ...

  6. Table of vowels - Wikipedia

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    Table of vowels. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see . For the distinction between , and , see . This article includes inline links to audio files. If you have trouble playing the files, see . This table lists the vowel letters of the ...

  7. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    As a general rule, this vowel almost always acts as a joint-stem to connect two consonantal roots (e.g. arthr-+ -o-+ -logy = arthrology), but generally, the -o-is dropped when connecting to a vowel-stem (e.g. arthr-+ -itis = arthritis, instead of arthr-o-itis). Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek ...

  8. Phonological history of English vowels - Wikipedia

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    The cot–caught merger is a phonemic merger that occurs in some varieties of English causing the vowel in words like cot, rock, and doll to be pronounced the same as the vowel in the words caught, talk, law, and small. The psalm – sum merger is a phenomenon occurring in Singaporean English where the phonemes /ɑ/ and /ʌ/ are both pronounced ...

  9. Vowel harmony - Wikipedia

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    The basic rule is that words including at least one back vowel get back vowel suffixes (karba – in(to) the arm), while words excluding back vowels get front vowel suffixes (kézbe – in(to) the hand). Single-vowel words which have only the neutral vowels (i, í or é) are unpredictable, but e takes a front-vowel suffix.

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