This contrasts with a full alphabet, in which vowels have status equal to consonants, and with an abjad, in which vowel marking is absent or optional.

* a lack of vowel marking ( often with ambiguity between no vowel and a default inherent vowel ),

The macron has become the generally accepted device for marking long vowels ( hāngi ), but double vowel letters have also been used ( haangi ).

* the marking of vowel length is almost entirely absent from MHG manuscripts.

The names of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids are taken from Greek mythology, so the pronunciations of all are predictable once the Greek or Latin orthography with long vowel marking is known.

Also characteristic of the Jaqaru morphology ( and all of the Jaqi languages ) is the use of extensive vowel dropping for grammatical marking.

for example, duration sometimes figures in both the vowel system and the intonation.

This hypothesis will account for a large part of the difficulties of tonal analysis, as well as the fact that vowel systems are often more puzzling than consonantal systems.

By relaxing the throat muscles and expanding the oral cavity well into the frontal sinuses, she could direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous position for proper reproduction through her throat microphone.

The Canadian Aboriginal syllabics are also an abugida rather than a syllabary as their name would imply, since each glyph stands for a consonant which is modified by rotation to represent the following vowel.

An abjad is a type of writing system where each symbol always or usually stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel.

Abjads differ from abugidas, another category invented by Daniels, in that in abjads, the vowel sound is implied by phonology, and where vowel marks exist for the system, such as nikkud for Hebrew and harakāt for Arabic, their use is optional and not the dominant ( or literate ) form.

" Impure " abjads have characters for some vowels, optional vowel diacritics, or both.

However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.

Vowels not preceded by a consonant may be represented with a zero consonant letter, modified to indicate the vowel, or separate letters for each vowel, that are distinct from the corresponding dependent vowel signs.

" O " is not only short for " Oriole ", but the vowel is also a stand-out aspect of the Baltimorean accent.

The 21 consonant letters in the English alphabet are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, X, Z, and usually W and Y: The letter Y stands for the consonant in " yoke ", the vowel in " myth " and the vowel in " funny ", and " yummy " for both consonant and vowel, for examples ; W almost always represents a consonant except in rare words ( mostly loanwords from Welsh ) like " crwth " " cwm ".

Hooks or short lines attached to various parts of the basic letter modify the vowel.

In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha represent the short.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

In horticulture, the spelling clon was used until the twentieth century ; the final e came into use to indicate the vowel is a " long o " instead of a " short o ".< ref >

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

However, the form gēr ( from PGmc * gaizaz ) seems far too advanced phonetically for the 1st century, has a long vowel where a short one is expected, and the Latin form has a simplex-n -, not a geminate.

Although the word " on " is sometimes translated as " syllable ", one on is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an " n " at the end of a syllable.

Thus, the word " haibun ", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese ( ha-i-bu-n ); and the word " on " itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal

A short syllable ( υ ) is a syllable with a short vowel and one consonant at the end.

Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version.

# Each vowel letter (⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩, ⟨⟩) represented both long and short vocalic phonemes.

The third conjugation is characterized by a short thematic vowel, which alternates between e, i, and u in different environments.

In Arabic there is no such choice, and the almost invariable rule is that a long vowel is written with a mater lectionis and a short vowel with a diacritic symbol, although the Othmani orthography, the one in which the Qur ' an is traditionally written and printed, has some differences which are not always consistent.

Lip-rounding is also built into the system, so that front vowels ( such as e, a ) have spread or neutral lip postures, but the back vowels ( such as ) have more marked lip-rounding as vowel height increases.

In relation to certain languages, the name " schwa " and the symbol may be used for some other unstressed and toneless neutral vowel, not necessarily mid-central.

Schwa is a very short neutral vowel sound, and like all vowels, its precise quality varies depending on the adjacent consonants.

In the Eastern dialects of Catalan, including the standard language variety, based in the dialect spoken in and around Barcelona, an unstressed " a " or " e " is pronounced as a schwa ( called " vocal neutra ", " neutral vowel ").

They are divided into ( or " aligned into ", to use phonology jargon ) three vowel harmony groups by a parameter called ATR ( advanced tongue root ); the groups are − ATR, + ATR, and neutral.

There are five pure vowel sounds: a, é, i, o, u, and two neutral vowels ; e, and eu.

If the diphthong is followed by a neutral vowel, a little flick is added.

After high and mid-high vowels, the is replaced by or another neutral central vowel like: weird, square.

It has a toneless neutral vowel sound.

Just as in Italian, although евро could have been declined as a regular neuter noun, it was made indeclinable like many neutral loanwords ending in a vowel: бюро bureau, office, writing-desk, пальто overcoat, кофе coffee, бордо Bordeaux wine, claret etc.

In linguistics, a schwa is an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel ( rounded or unrounded ).

# the neutral position of the tongue during the pronunciation of a vowel, contrasting with advanced tongue root, or