If you are referring only to the letters of the Alphabet, then depending on dialect and definition, there are about 16.
If you are referring to the spoken language, it also depends on dialect and how you define pure consonants. I count 22 (23 if you think r is a pure consonant).
the set of consonant has 19 elements
No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.AnswerThere is no such thing as a purely "US" English alphabet, other than perhaps the US pronunciation of the last letter, Z, zed. The present English alphabet has been in use since Shakespeare's time (there were 3 letters used in Old English which survived to around Shakespeare's time, in some cases dropped when printing presses were introduced, and the source of the incorrect "Ye" word ).
If you count each version of an alphabet as unique (for example, the English version of the Latin alphabet and the Spanish version of the Latin alphabet would be counted separately), then there are more than 100,000 alphabets.If you are referring only to base alphabets, such as the Latin alphabet, the Cyrillic, Alphabet, etc, and you only include pure alphabets that represent both vowels and consonants, there are about 20. Notable examples are:LatinGreekCyrillicArmenianHangul (Korean)ArmenianGeorgian
Each language (or set of languages) will have its own alphabet. There are literally Thousands of alphabets in the world today.Some common alphabets are:LatinArabicArmenianCyrillicGreekGregorianHebrewGeorgianAmharicKoreanHindiThaiLao
pure
They were not communists, but in fact, they were pure awesomeness.
The first semi-phonetic writing system was a set of 24 symbols used in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The Phoenicians were the first to use only phonetic symbols. They had an alphabet of 22 consonants, but the vowels were not written. The Greeks were the first use us phonetic symbols for all the sounds of a language (the first pure alphabet)
No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.AnswerThere is no such thing as a purely "US" English alphabet, other than perhaps the US pronunciation of the last letter, Z, zed. The present English alphabet has been in use since Shakespeare's time (there were 3 letters used in Old English which survived to around Shakespeare's time, in some cases dropped when printing presses were introduced, and the source of the incorrect "Ye" word ).
There are five pure vowel sounds in English: a, e, i, o, and u.
If you count each version of an alphabet as unique (for example, the English version of the Latin alphabet and the Spanish version of the Latin alphabet would be counted separately), then there are more than 100,000 alphabets.If you are referring only to base alphabets, such as the Latin alphabet, the Cyrillic, Alphabet, etc, and you only include pure alphabets that represent both vowels and consonants, there are about 20. Notable examples are:LatinGreekCyrillicArmenianHangul (Korean)ArmenianGeorgian
only five pure vowels are there i.e A, E, I, O. U.
Each language (or set of languages) will have its own alphabet. There are literally Thousands of alphabets in the world today.Some common alphabets are:LatinArabicArmenianCyrillicGreekGregorianHebrewGeorgianAmharicKoreanHindiThaiLao
In British English, "pure" is pronounced as /pjĘÉ(r)/ or "pyoor."
pure (pyour)
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In English, the French phrase l'enfant du vendredi a l'âme pure means:Friday's child has a pure soul.
The first pure alphabet system was created by the Phoenicians sometime before 1050 BCE. for a chart of the letters, see related links:
"La voix pure" translates to "the pure voice" in English.