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These ligatures are proper letters in some Scandinavian languages, and so are used to render names from those languages, and likewise names from Old English. Some American spellings replace ligatured vowels with a single letter; for example, gynæcology or gynaecology is spelled gynecology.
Frederick habitually signed buildings such as Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome, [2] Burg Wiener Neustadt, or Graz Cathedral as well as his tableware and other objects with the vowel graphemes. [3] A.E.I.O.U. is also the motto of the Theresian Military Academy, established in 1751. [4]
The Māori alphabet includes both long and short vowels, which change the meaning of words. [1] For most of the 20th century, these were not indicated by spelling, except sometimes as double vowels (paaua). Since the 1980s, the standard way to indicate long vowels is with a macron (pāua).
AEIOU may refer to: a, e, i, o, u, a traditional list of vowel letters in the Roman alphabet; A.E.I.O.U., a device used by the Habsburgs; aeiou Encyclopedia, a free online collection of reference works in German and English about Austria-related topics; Aeiou, a cartoon character featured in the older version of Muse magazine
Long vowels are considered to be sequences of vowels and so are not counted as phonemes. [21] Hindi: Indo-European: 44 + (5) 33 + (5) 11 [22] Hungarian: Uralic language: 39: 25 14 The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels such as o and ó. Most of the pairs have an almost similar pronunciation and vary significantly ...
Another mathematical term without vowel letters is ln, the natural logarithm. A more obscure example is rng /ˈrʌŋ/, derived from ring by deleting the letter i . Vowelless proper names from other languages, such as the surname Ng, may retain their original spelling, even if they are pronounced with vowels.
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
IPA near-open central vowel Ɑ ɑ ᵅ: Alpha (script A) IPA, Cameroon Languages, Duka [citation needed] /ɑ/ IPA open back unrounded vowel, cf. Greek: Α α ꬰ Barred alpha Teuthonista [4] ꭤ Inverted alpha APA [5] /ä/ Ɒ ɒ ᶛ Turned alpha (turned script A) IPA [6] /ɒ/ IPA open back rounded vowel: ʙ 𐞄 Small capital B IPA /ʙ/