Letters of the alphabet that generally stand for sounds made with an open or partially open mouth: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y (as in style). (Compare consonants.)
vowels
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 | vowelism |
| semivowel consonant |
| voweled |
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Mentioned in
- Hollick (family name)
- aevia
- crasis
- alpha privative
- Northwest Caucasian (family of languages of the Caucasus Mountains)
- synizēsis
- quality
- diphthongize
- monophthong
- umlauted
