Search results for "Vowel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- than one way of indicating vowels. The main vowel of a word or phrase was indicated ... of writing. As mentioned above, each vowel was written next to the consonant ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- where each consonant has an inherent vowel that can be changed using ... Modern Gurmukhī has forty-one consonants (vianjan), nine vowel symbols ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- What is pronounced as a close-mid back unrounded vowel is written ... * The Pinyin vowel cluster ong is ung in Wade-Giles. (Compare Kung ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- it might also be simply a connecting vowel. The compound may either express a nominal phrase (Ab[i]ram = "[my] father is exalted" ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- abugida, as each consonant has an inherent vowel (a), that can be changed ... two other consonants so that the inherent vowel is suppressed. The resulting ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- an idiosyncratic theory that words containing vowel sounds made in the front of the palate (in Russian, E, I, YU) should be used when depicting ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- meter may have to follow a pattern such as: long vowel, long vowel, short, long, short. Although this type of measure was natural in ancient Greek ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- langauge had no clear vowels, subsequent vowel sounds were added to the ... kinds of symbols to the text: niqud (vowel points) and cantillation ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- syllabic in nature. Every consonant sign has the vowel অ ... (or sometimes the vowel ও [o] ) "embedded" or "inherent ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- represents a consonant followed by a vowel, or just a vowel alone, though in some scripts more complex syllables (such as consonant-vowel-consonant ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before ... to use the rounded U when they meant the vowel u and the pointed V when ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The ay-men pronunciation, a product of the Great Vowel Shift dating to the fifteenth century, is associated with Irish Protestantism and conservative ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- other forms of juncture, nasalization and vowel harmony), which, in many ... can occur immediately only before a vowel, never before a consonant. ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
- European sources, but later merged with the vowel e and was eliminated from ... to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide palatalization ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- as all native words in Telugu end with a vowel sound, but it is believed ... Like other major Dravidian languages, the Telugu vowel set adds short ...39 KB (5,358 words) - 22:05, 13 January 2024
- and coöperate—in which the two vowel letters indicate separate vowel sounds. The magazine does not put the titles of plays or books in italics ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 15:41, 30 April 2023
- but a word-final syllable must end with a vowel. In most languages ... /l/ or /n/ assimilate to a following semi-vowel /j/, yielding the corresponding ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- quot; was created by adding the vowel points of "Adonai" (Lord), which Jews normally use to avoid pronouncing the sacred name in their ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- the first term was taken to signify certain vowel-changes which were made in ... from its beginning to the introduction of vowel-signs; (2) reproductive period ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
