pure vowel

The one big difference is that the Phoenician script had no pure vowels.

No ancient script, alphabetic or not, had pure vowels before the Greeks.

In Spanish it would be pure vowel, short.

This gives a distinct 20 pure vowel sounds.

Smalley described 14 pure vowels that occur both long and short.

Her voice was distinguishably Irish, but with the pure vowels of education, and her words were already a dismissal.

However, several have since evolved into pure vowels:

Classical Latin had ten pure vowels (monophthongs), along with three diphthongs.

It also has a rather small inventory of consonants and a large amount of pure vowels (twelve).

Sedang itself has 24 pure vowels: 7 vowel qualities, all of which may be plain (ex.

The other varieties, both Standard and basilectal, have close pure vowels which are long, except in the case of Trinidadian.

The vowel system of modern Thai contains nine pure vowels and three centering diphthongs, each of which can occur long or short.

Standard Swedish has 17 pure vowels, standard German and Dutch 14 and Danish at least 11.

Some sounds, such as pure vowels like aaaahhh, occur in a steady flow that continues for more than 100 milliseconds (a tenth of a second), she said.

Voiced phonemes such as the pure vowels are, by definition, distinguished by the buzzing sound of this periodic oscillation of the vocal cords.

Xóõ achieves 31 pure vowels, not counting its additional variation by vowel length, by varying the phonation.

Since the Meitei language does not have voiced consonants, there are only fifteen consonant letters used for native words, plus three letters for pure vowels.

In languages with only one phonemic length for pure vowels, however, diphthongs may behave like pure vowels.

Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent.

A visitor walking down Queen Street might also be pardoned for thinking that the pure vowels and guttural glottal-stops of the native speech sound more German or Dutch than English.

Then to distinguish pure vowels from diphthongs we could have the feature pure;,,,,,,,,,,, would be (+pure) and all the diphthongs would be (-pure).

Japanese has only five native vowel sounds, each a pure vowel (monophthong) with a long and short form, and some degree of approximation is necessary when representing vowels from, for example, English.

This Danish, one-letter word is pronounced as a French o but shortened by a glottal stop or as a curt English aw as a pure vowel rather than a diphthong.

The original pure vowel typically breaks into two segments, where the first segment matches the original vowel and the second segment is harmonic with the nature of the triggering vowel or consonant.

In pre-vocalic positions, the phonemes u and i were semi-vowels, probably pronounced like English w and y, but they could also become pure vowels when the following ablaut vowel reduced to zero.