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Nitpick: These are names with no _vowel letters_; many (if not all, depending on how you define what a vowel is) of these letters are pronounced with a vowel.
by uranusjr 5y ago
Nitpick: These are names with no _vowel letters_; many (if not all, depending on how you define what a vowel is) of these letters are pronounced with a vowel.
- oehtXRwMkIs 5y agoHow do you pronounce anything without a vowel sound?
- henrikschroder 5y agoBrrrr, it's cold today!
- joe-collins 5y ago/bɜr/ That's a vowel in there.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoHmmm. Can be said without moving your lips or opening your mouth.
- meepmorp 5y agoYes, but it ends with /m/. Nasal stop consonants are articulated with an open velum, so they function as semi-vowels, as /l/ and /r/ do.
- hvdijk 5y agoThere are different ways people say "brrr" in English. Many of those ways have a vowel in, but not all.
- Asraelite 5y agoYeah, a nice example for this is "myrrh" because it's a full word, not something paralinguistic like brrr. It's one of very few examples of English words that can in certain dialects be spelled and pronounced without a traditional vowel.
- DonHopkins 5y agoPththth!
- Broken_Hippo 5y agoGenerally, with an added yet invisible vowel. Entire languages are written without vowels as we (with the latin alphabet/english speakers) would know them. (Hebrew and Arabic are the languages I had in mind).
- infiniteL0Op 5y ago
- adrian_b 5y agoA vowel sound is a sound that can form a syllable alone, without being combined with other sounds, like a consonant, or which can be the peak of sonority in a syllable composed of multiple sounds. In Latin & Ancient Greek, which are the origin of the grammatical terms that most people learn in school, only A, E, I, O and U could be used as vowels. Because of that, when most people hear about vowels, they think about these sounds. Nevertheless, in most languages there are also other sounds that can be used as vowels. Even in English, words like "listen" or "often" have 2 syllables and the vowel of the second syllable is "N". Another example is "people", which also has 2 syllables and the second vowel is "L". Among the English speakers, there are variations. In words like the previous examples, some speakers pronounce a short central vowel before the final "N" or "L", which remain consonants, but other speakers transition directly into the final "N" or "L" from the previous plosive, in which case "N" or "L" are the vowels of the second syllable. Like in English, there are many languages where the liquids (e.g. "L", "R") or the nasals (e.g. "N", "M") may be used as vowels. While English has restrictions for where such vowels may appear, other languages allow their use in much more kinds of sound environments. These kinds of sounds can be used as vowels when alone or when surrounded by sounds of lower sonority than them, because when they are pronounced there are also paths for the continuous expiration of air through the mouth or nose, even if they are more constricted than in the sounds more frequently used as vowels, e.g. AEIOU (i.e. like you can pronounce continuously AAAAAAAA, you can also pronounce for as long as you want LLLLLLLL or NNNNNNNNNNNN).
- timeon 5y ago> of these letters are pronounced with a vowel maybe in English but not in Slavic languages (at least not in western Slavic). "prst skrz krk" [ˈpr̩st] [ˈskr̩s] [ˈkr̩k]
- forehanddev 5y agoWestern slavic languages still use a version of the 'Close unrounded central vowel' implicitly in pronounciation, even though it is not represented in writing. An example of this would be words in Romanian (which has a character representation for this sound) that were adopted from slavic languages. E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/b%C3%A2rlog#Romanian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/b%C3%A2rlog#Romanian
- ithkuil 5y agoBut southern slavic languages lost that and we really just roll that r and pretend that it's just a vowel.