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...déath, wörld-dominâtion fántasy, mâin-sêquence stàrs'''. (The accents show vowel sounds and can be referenced in [[English spellings]] or [[English phonemes ...' and '''prê-émpt''' the hyphen aids pronunciation by separating identical vowel-letters with different sounds, though perhaps it is a little pedantic to se

...ver, the written forms shows them that [t] must be pronounced, so an extra vowel is added (''epenthesis'') as in [katə], which may persist. Acquisition wit

..."Has the strength of an eagle").<ref>The emergence of the low end-[[Vowel|vowel]] is an equivalent to the [[Old English]] translations of the Germanic ''wa

...'' || - [i] <br>- [j] after vowel || ''- h'''i'''t <br>- bo'''y''''' after vowel || ...''c'''u'''re'', ''f'''ew''''') <br> - ''sho'''u'''t'', ''lo'''w''''' after vowel ||

...ef> [[Phonology|Phonologically]], its 'sounds' consist mainly of consonant-vowel units that cannot be split up, such as ''bu'', ''ni'' and ''ka'', which are

'''a''' shows various vowel sounds. The short sound: '''cát, sát, mát, háve, bád, cráss, glád, H Many foreign learners confuse '''å''' (a long vowel) with the diphthong '''ô''' and so pronounce '''låw''' ''legal'' as if it

...ing of the choices. The correct answer must be the one that starts with a vowel:

...Mary Wollstonecraft|'''Wollstonecraft''']], '''Wolsey''', etc., same first vowel sound '''wrêath''' ''noun'' unvoiced '''th''' as in '''bréath''', different vowel sound

...the greatest ''haiku'' poet, contains three morae, since the long terminal vowel counts as two morae.

...forms part of the ''rhyme'' of the syllable (the component containing the vowel or syllabic consonant) it will be velarised; if it is part of the ''onset''

...ere is a back vowel in the following syllable, and /e/ if there is a front vowel. For example, 'white' (sing. - plur.) sounds in the following way in these ...l) e (mid-high front vowel) o (mid-high back rounded vowel) a (low central vowel) -->

...me foreign learners, there has been a very strong tendency to lengthen the vowel sound in the endings -'''ies''' and -'''ied''': '''cárriês''' instead of ...lling, '''Teheràn''') there has developed a tendency to lengthen the first vowel to the sound in '''èh?''', making the syllable sound like '''Tây'''; cf.

'''ou'''- before a vowel = '''w''' (from French, where '''w''' traditionally = '''v''')

'''o''' represents various (usually) back vowel sounds. It is very versatile, with three irregular sounds, '''move''' (''' '''pêople''' has the same vowel sound as '''œ''', but with the letters reversed, and the '''o''' completel

...kāppiyar. Its classification of the [[alphabet]] into [[consonant]]s and [[vowel]] was a breakthrough. The historical record of the study of language begins

| contribution = Austronesian and Mon-Khmer components in the Proto Chamic vowel system

...scripts are not alphabets in the strict sense, but [[Abugida|abugidas]]: a vowel following a consonant is written, not as a separate letter, but as a diacri ...son says instead that this letter represents nasalization of the preceding vowel)

...rger of the two surrounding vowels, or by the insertion of an [[epenthetic vowel]] between them: cf. Lat. ''salire'', ''tenere'', ''catena'', Sp. ''salir'', ...d]] consonant was ''n'', it often [[nasalization|nasalized]] the preceding vowel: cf. Lat. ''manum'', ''rana'', ''bonum'', Port. ''mão'', ''rãa'' (now ''r

'''i''' represents various vowel sounds.

'''Ibìza''' *Í-bêetha; some say *Eŷe-Bêetha, a combination of anglicised long vowel and, with the -th- for '''zh''', hypercorrect Castilian [[Spanish language|