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The short vowels were still written u and o , but long /uː/ came to be spelt as ou , and /oː/ as oo . Generally, the Middle English vowels descended from the corresponding Old English ones, but there were certain alternative developments .
Its vowel height is open-mid, also known as low-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between an open vowel (a low vowel) and a mid vowel.; Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned back in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of Romance languages or Guarani it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and ...
The close back rounded vowel, or high back rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is u , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is u.
O with diaeresis occurs in several languages that use diaereses. In these languages the letter represents the fact that this o is the start of a new syllable (e.g. in the Dutch/Afrikaans word coöperatief [cooperative]), instead of the general oo (e.g. In the Dutch word doorn [thorn]) .
U: /juː/ use /juːz/ Notes : English commonly requires ea or ee to write the /iː/ sound: read, reed. A w-like sound can be heard at the end of O in words like echoing (say: echo-echo-echoing , and it may come out like echo-wecho-wecho-wing ) and after the co- in cooperate ; that is what the /ʊ/ in the transcription /oʊ/ captures.
Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch , Frisian , Irish , Occitan , Catalan , Pinyin , Portuguese , Spanish , Italian , Galician , and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter " U ".
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is u (pronounced / ˈ j uː / ), plural ues .