It depends on the language. In English, 21 letters of the alphabet respresent consonsonants (if you include H, W and Y as consonants)
There are 15 consonants.
Consonants are the letters of the alphabet that are not vowels.
what is the ratio of the numbers vowels to the number of consonants in the english alphabet
21 Consonants in the Alphabet
24 of the thousands of hieroglyphics are called unilaterals, and they can be considered an early type of alphabet, but they only had consonants. The first Alphabet to include vowels was the Greek Alphabet, thousands of years later.
Consonants.
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There are 21 consonants in the English alphabet (B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z). There are a total of 26 letters in the English alphabet. To find the fraction of the alphabet that is made up of consonants, you would divide the number of consonants by the total number of letters, which gives you 21/26. Therefore, approximately 80.77% of the English alphabet is made up of consonants.
Actually, there are more consonants that there are vowels in the alphabet.
five to twenty one
In the English alphabet, the ratio is 21/5 .
The Greek alphabet was based on the Phoenician alphabet, which as not a "true" alphabet. It was something called an 'abjad' (using only consonants)-Greek was the first language to use a "true" alphabet, consisting of both vowels and consonants. The Phoenician alphabet only used consonants, with some consonants used for vowel sounds. Phoenician is an alphabet as well as a writing system, Phoenician alphabet unlike the complex characters used in Cuneiform scripts, and Egyptian Hieroglyphics to form words was very difficult to learn, and later to understand. The simplicity of the phonics system of the Phoenician alphabet helped it to become popular and was expanded upon by the Greek alphabet, which was later a base for the Latin alphabet and Runic alphabet