Category: Languages
Created by: Cornely
Number of Blossarys: 3
A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant. Vowels vary in quality, in loudness and also in quantity (length). The word vowel comes from the Latin word ...
Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages. A vowel or vowels in a word must be members of the same subclass (thus "in ...
In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be pronounced in isolation with objective or practical meaning. A word may consist of a single morpheme, or several, whereas a morpheme may ...
a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract. Examples are [p], pronounced with the lips; [t], pronounced with the front of the tongue; [k], ...