Vowel, the Glossary
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.[1]
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- Manner of articulation
- Vowels
Abjad
An abjad (أبجد), also abgad, is a writing system in which only consonants are represented, leaving the vowel sounds to be inferred by the reader.
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Acoustics
Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound.
Adposition
Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).
Adyghe language
Adyghe (or; also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians.
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters written to represent particular sounds in a spoken language.
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Amstetten District
Bezirk Amstetten is a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria.
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Amstetten, Lower Austria
Amstetten is a city in Lower Austria.
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Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow. Vowel and Approximant are manner of articulation.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
Arrernte language
Arrernte or Aranda, or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte (Upper Aranda), is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory, Australia, by the Arrernte people.
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Articulatory phonetics
The field of articulatory phonetics is a subfield of phonetics that studies articulation and ways that humans produce speech. Vowel and articulatory phonetics are phonetics.
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Arytenoid cartilage
The arytenoid cartilages are a pair of small three-sided pyramids which form part of the larynx.
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Audio Interchange File Format
Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.
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Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
Bantu languages
The Bantu languages (English:, Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a language family of about 600 languages that are spoken by the Bantu peoples of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa.
Bavarian language
Bavarian (Bairisch; Bavarian: Boarisch or Boirisch), alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south-east of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol.
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Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Breathy voice
Breathy voice (also called murmured voice, whispery voice, soughing and susurration) is a phonation in which the vocal folds vibrate, as they do in normal (modal) voicing, but are adjusted to let more air escape which produces a sighing-like sound.
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
Cardinal vowels
Cardinal vowels are a set of reference vowels used by phoneticians in describing the sounds of languages. Vowel and Cardinal vowels are vowels.
Cebuano language
Cebuano on Merriam-Webster.com is an Austronesian language spoken in the southern Philippines.
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Central vowel
A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
Cheyenne language
The Cheyenne language (Tsėhesenėstsestȯtse) (informal spelling Tsisinstsistots), is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, in the United States.
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Classical Arabic
Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (the most eloquent classic Arabic) is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages onwards, having succeeded the Paleo-Arabic script.
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Close central rounded vowel
The close central rounded vowel, or high central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Close front rounded vowel
The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.
Close-mid vowel
A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Continuant
In phonetics, a continuant is a speech sound produced without a complete closure in the oral cavity. Vowel and continuant are phonetics.
Creaky voice
In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) refers to a low, scratchy sound that occupies the vocal range below the common vocal register.
Curtain
A curtain is a piece of cloth or other material intended to block or obscure light, air drafts, or (in the case of a shower curtain) water.
Czech language
Czech (čeština), historically also known as Bohemian (lingua Bohemica), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
Daniel Jones (phonetician)
Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris).
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
Danish phonology
The phonology of Danish is similar to that of the other closely related Scandinavian languages, Swedish and Norwegian, but it also has distinct features setting it apart.
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Dental click
Dental (or more precisely denti-alveolar) clicks are a family of click consonants found, as constituents of words, only in Africa and in the Damin ritual jargon of Australia.
Diacritic
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.
Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Vowel and diphthong are phonetics and vowels.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English phonology
English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English.
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Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.
Estonian language
Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.
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Finnic languages
The Finnic or Baltic Finnic languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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Formant
In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
Front vowel
A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.
Function word
In linguistics, function words (also called functors) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning and express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.
Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
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Fusion (phonetics)
In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is a sound change where two or more segments with distinctive features merge into a single segment.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Glottis
The glottis (glottises or glottides) is the opening between the vocal folds (the rima glottidis). Vowel and glottis are phonetics.
Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of changes in the pronunciation of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700, beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
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Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Hebrew cantillation
Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services.
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Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
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Indigenous languages of the Americas
The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.
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Inherent vowel
An inherent vowel is part of an abugida (or alphasyllabary) script. Vowel and inherent vowel are vowels.
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Intonation (linguistics)
In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse.
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Inuktitut
Inuktitut (syllabics ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ; from, 'person' + -titut, 'like', 'in the manner of'), also known as Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
Iowa
Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japonic languages
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.
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Jaw
The jaws are a pair of opposable articulated structures at the entrance of the mouth, typically used for grasping and manipulating food.
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Jinhui dialect
The Jinhui dialect, also known as Dônđäc, is a dialect of Wu Chinese spoken in the town of, China in Shanghai's suburban Fengxian District.
John C. Wells
John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist.
John Esling
John Henry Esling, (born 5 June 1949) is a Canadian linguist specializing in phonetics.
Kazakh language
Kazakh or Qazaq is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.
Kenneth Lee Pike
Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist.
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Kensiu language
Kensiu (Kensiw) is an Austroasiatic language of the Jahaic (Northern Aslian) subbranch.
Khoisan languages
The Khoisan languages (also Khoesan or Khoesaan) are a number of African languages once classified together, originally by Joseph Greenberg.
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Krk
Krk (Veglia; Krk; Vikla; archaic German: Vegl, Curicta; Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county.
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Labialization
Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.
Larynx
The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck involved in breathing, producing sound and protecting the trachea against food aspiration. Vowel and larynx are phonetics.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.
Latin phonology and orthography
Latin phonology is the system of sounds used in various kinds of Latin.
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Length (phonetics)
In phonetics, length or quantity is a feature of sounds that have distinctively extended duration compared with other sounds.
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Lexeme
A lexeme is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection.
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Loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Maned sloth
The maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus) is a three-toed sloth that is native to South America.
Masoretes
The Masoretes (Baʿălēy Hammāsōrā, lit. 'Masters of the Tradition') were groups of Jewish scribe-scholars who worked from around the end of the 5th through 10th centuries CE, based primarily in the Jewish centers of the Levant (e.g. Tiberias and Jerusalem) and Mesopotamia (e.g. Sura and Nehardea).
Mater lectionis
A mater lectionis (mother of reading, matres lectionis; original ʾēm qərîʾāh) is any consonant that is used to indicate a vowel, primarily in the writing of Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac.
Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.
Mixe languages
The Mixe languages are languages of the Mixean branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico.
Miyakoan language
The Miyakoan language (宮古口/ミャークフツ Myākufutsu/Myākufutsї or 島口/スマフツ Sumafutsu/Sїmafutsї, Miyako-go) is a diverse dialect cluster spoken in the Miyako Islands, located southwest of Okinawa.
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Modal voice
Modal voice is the vocal register used most frequently in speech and singing in most languages.
Mon language
The Mon language (ဘာသာမန်; Mon-Thai ဘာသာမည်; မွန်ဘာသာစကား; ภาษามอญ; formerly known as Peguan and Talaing) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Mon people.
Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
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Monophthong
A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at only beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation. Vowel and monophthong are vowels.
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.
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Myrrh
Myrrh (from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted from a few small, thorny tree species of the Commiphora genus, belonging to the Burseraceae family.
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Nahuatl
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose. Vowel and nasal consonant are manner of articulation.
Nasal vowel
A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy. Vowel and nasal vowel are vowels.
Nasalization
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. Vowel and nasalization are phonetics.
Navajo language
Navajo or Navaho (Navajo: Diné bizaad or Naabeehó bizaad) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
Ndu languages
The Ndu languages are the best known family of the Sepik languages of East Sepik Province in northern Papua New Guinea.
Near-close vowel
A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Near-open vowel
A near-open vowel or a near-low vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
Niqqud
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
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Northeast Caucasian languages
The Northeast Caucasian languages, also called East Caucasian, Nakh-Daghestani or Vainakh-Daghestani, or sometimes Caspian languages (from the Caspian Sea, in contrast to Pontic languages for the Northwest Caucasian languages), is a family of languages spoken in the Russian republics of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia and in Northern Azerbaijan as well as in Georgia and diaspora populations in Western Europe and the Middle East.
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Northwest Caucasian languages
The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes Pontic languages, is a family of languages spoken in the northwestern Caucasus region,Hoiberg, Dale H. (2010) chiefly in three Russian republics (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay–Cherkessia), the disputed territory of Abkhazia, Georgia, and Turkey, with smaller communities scattered throughout the Middle East.
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Nuxalk language
Nuxalk, also known as Bella Coola, is a Salishan language spoken by the Nuxalk people.
On (Japanese prosody)
On (音; rarely onji) are the phonetic units in Japanese poetry. Vowel and on (Japanese prosody) are phonetics.
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
Open-mid vowel
An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
Oral Torah
According to Rabbinic Judaism, the Oral Torah or Oral Law (תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה.|Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe|) are statutes and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the Written Torah (תּוֹרָה שֶׁבִּכְתָב|Tōrā šebbīḵṯāv|"Written Law"|label.
Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged (17 September 1925 – 24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.
Pharyngealization
Pharyngealization is a secondary articulation of consonants or vowels by which the pharynx or epiglottis is constricted during the articulation of the sound. Vowel and Pharyngealization are phonetics.
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Phonation
The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics. Vowel and phonation are phonetics.
Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another. Vowel and phoneme are phonetics.
Phonemic contrast
Phonemic contrast refers to a minimal phonetic difference, that is, small differences in speech sounds, that makes a difference in how the sound is perceived by listeners, and can therefore lead to different mental lexical entries for words.
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Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
Phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.
Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
Polish language
Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.
Polynesian languages
The Polynesian languages form a genealogical group of languages, itself part of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian family.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Productivity (linguistics)
In linguistics, productivity is the degree to which speakers of a language use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation.
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Prosody (linguistics)
In linguistics, prosody is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but which are properties of syllables and larger units of speech, including linguistic functions such as intonation, stress, and rhythm. Vowel and prosody (linguistics) are phonetics.
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Quebec French
Quebec French (français québécois), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.
R-colored vowel
An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant. Vowel and r-colored vowel are phonetics and vowels.
Raised vowel
A raised vowel is a vowel sound in which the body of the tongue is raised upward and backward toward the dorsum (soft palate). Vowel and raised vowel are vowels.
Reduplication
In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.
Resonance
In physics, resonance refers to a wide class of phenomena that arise as a result of matching temporal or spatial periods of oscillatory objects.
Resonator
A resonator is a device or system that exhibits resonance or resonant behavior.
Retracted vowel
A retracted vowel is a vowel sound in which the body or root of the tongue is pulled backward and downward into the pharynx. Vowel and retracted vowel are vowels.
Rhotic consonant
In phonetics, rhotic consonants, or "R-like" sounds, are liquid consonants that are traditionally represented orthographically by symbols derived from the Greek letter rho, including r in the Latin script and p in the Cyrillic script.
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Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin.
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Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Roundedness
In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. Vowel and roundedness are vowels.
Scale of vowels
A scale of vowels is an arrangement of vowels in order of perceived "pitch".
Sedang language
Sedang is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken in eastern Laos and Kon Tum Province in south central Vietnam.
Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. Vowel and semivowel are manner of articulation and vowels.
Sepik languages
The Sepik or Sepik River languages are a family of some 50 Papuan languages spoken in the Sepik river basin of northern Papua New Guinea, proposed by Donald Laycock in 1965 in a somewhat more limited form than presented here.
Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
Silent e
In English orthography, many words feature a silent (single, final, non-syllabic ‘e’), most commonly at the end of a word or morpheme.
Slovak language
Slovak (endonym: slovenčina or slovenský jazyk), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script.
Soft palate
The soft palate (also known as the velum, palatal velum, or muscular palate) is, in mammals, the soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth.
Sonorant
In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages. Vowel and sonorant are manner of articulation.
Sound intensity
Sound intensity, also known as acoustic intensity, is defined as the power carried by sound waves per unit area in a direction perpendicular to that area.
Southern Min
Southern Min, Minnan (Mandarin pronunciation) or Banlam, is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Chinese languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan (many citizens are descendants of settlers from Fujian), Eastern Guangdong, Hainan, and Southern Zhejiang.
Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spectrogram
A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time.
Spoken language
A spoken language is a language produced by articulate sounds or (depending on one's definition) manual gestures, as opposed to a written language.
Strč prst skrz krk
Strč prst skrz krk is a tongue twister in Czech and Slovak meaning 'stick a finger through the neck'.
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Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. Vowel and stress (linguistics) are phonetics.
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Strident vowel
Strident vowels (also called sphincteric vowels) are strongly pharyngealized vowels accompanied by an (ary)epiglottal trill, with the larynx being raised and the pharynx constricted.
Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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Syllabic consonant
A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, button and bottle, respectively. Vowel and syllabic consonant are vowels.
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Syllable
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 initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
Table of vowels
This table lists the vowel letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Vowel and table of vowels are vowels.
Tagalog phonology
This article deals with current phonology and phonetics and with historical developments of the phonology of the Tagalog language, including variants.
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Tehuelche language
Tehuelche (Aoniken, Inaquen, Gunua-Kena, Gununa-Kena) is one of the Chonan languages of Patagonia.
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Tenseness
In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical. Vowel and tenseness are phonetics.
Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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Totonac languages
Totonac is a Totonacan language cluster of Mexico, spoken across a number of central Mexican states by the Totonac people.
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Triphthong
In phonetics, a triphthong (from Greek) is a monosyllabic vowel combination involving a quick but smooth movement of the articulator from one vowel quality to another that passes over a third. Vowel and triphthong are phonetics and vowels.
Trope (music)
A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.
Tungusic languages
The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples.
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Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.
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Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
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Umlaut (diacritic)
Umlaut is a name for the two dots diacritical mark as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters,, and) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example,, and as,, and). (The term Germanic umlaut is also used for the underlying historical sound shift process.) In its contemporary printed form, the mark consists of two dots placed over the letter to represent the changed vowel sound.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Uralic languages
The Uralic languages, sometimes called the Uralian languages, form a language family of 42 languages spoken predominantly in Europe and North Asia.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Varieties of Chinese
There are hundreds of local Chinese language varieties forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, many of which are not mutually intelligible.
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Vertical vowel system
A vertical vowel system is the system of vowels in a language that requires only vowel height to phonemically distinguish vowels. Vowel and vertical vowel system are vowels.
See Vowel and Vertical vowel system
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
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Vocal cords
In humans, the vocal cords, also known as vocal folds, are folds of throat tissues that are key in creating sounds through vocalization. Vowel and vocal cords are phonetics.
Vocal tract
The vocal tract is the cavity in human bodies and in animals where the sound produced at the sound source (larynx in mammals; syrinx in birds) is filtered.
Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants). Vowel and voice (phonetics) are phonetics.
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowel and vowel are manner of articulation, phonetics and vowels.
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Vowel diagram
A vowel diagram or vowel chart is a schematic arrangement of the vowels. Vowel and vowel diagram are phonetics.
Vowel hiatus
In phonology, hiatus or diaeresis (also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant. Vowel and vowel hiatus are phonetics and vowels.
Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration. Vowel and vowel length are phonetics and vowels.
Wandala language
Wandala, also known as Mandara or Mura', is a language in the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
Writing system
A writing system comprises a particular set of symbols, called a script, as well as the rules by which the script represents a particular language.
Wu Chinese
Wu (Wu romanization and IPA:ngu ngei, (Shanghainese), (Suzhounese), Mandarin) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang Province, and the part of Jiangsu Province south of the Yangtze River, which makes up the cultural region of Wu.
Wyvern
The wyvern (sometimes spelled wivern) is a type of mythical dragon with two legs, two wings, and often a pointed tail.
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Yolŋu languages
Yolŋu Matha, meaning the 'Yolŋu tongue', is a linguistic family that includes the languages of the Yolngu (also known as the Yolŋu and Yuulngu languages), the indigenous people of northeast Arnhem Land in northern Australia.
Zero consonant
In orthography, a zero consonant, silent initial, or null-onset letter is a consonant letter that does not correspond to a consonant sound, but is required when a word or syllable starts with a vowel (i.e. has a null onset).
See also
Manner of articulation
- Affricate
- Approximant
- Continuants
- Fricative
- Manner of articulation
- Nasal consonant
- Oral consonant
- Plosive
- Semivowel
- Sibilant
- Sonorant
- Sonorants
- Tap and flap consonants
- Trill consonant
- Voiceless consonants
- Vowel
Vowels
- Advanced and retracted tongue root
- Cardinal vowels
- Checked and free vowels
- Diaeresis (prosody)
- Diphthong
- English words without vowels
- Inherent vowel
- Monophthong
- Nasal vowel
- Near-close near-back vowel
- New Quantity System
- R-colored vowel
- Raised vowel
- Retracted vowel
- Roundedness
- Scottish vowel length rule
- Semivowel
- Spectral glide
- Spurious diphthong
- Stress and vowel reduction in English
- Syllabic consonant
- Table of vowels
- Triphthong
- Vertical vowel system
- Vowel
- Vowel hiatus
- Vowel length
- Vowel letters
- Vowel reduction in Russian
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel
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