There are 5 vowels and 2 semi-vowels (Y and W).
But there are from 11 to 20 "vowel sounds" in English, made by one or more vowels in various words.
Vowels in the English AlphabetThe 5 traditional vowels are A, E, I, O, and U. However, in English the the letters W and Y can also represent vowel sounds, but they don't always do so. Hence, they may be considered vowels "sometimes".Examples with Y and W as vowels:
Examples where Y and W do not represent vowels:
Using the General American accent as an example, these are some of the vowel sounds that exist, excluding diphthongs:
There are too many words to list.
American Sign Language (ASL) is a unique language with its own grammar and vocabulary, so it does not directly translate English words into signs. However, there can be signs in ASL that correspond to English words, but it cannot be quantified in the same way as spoken languages.
Koko is a famous gorilla who understands many signs in American Sign Language as well as many words of spoken English.
There are about 228,132 words total in the English language.
There is no such language.
Which particular native American language? There are many hundreds to chose from.
more than you can count... how many words are in the English language??
Marathi language has approximately 70 million words.
Just like English language, Spanish language has unlimited amount of words
Noah Webster was the first person to write and publish an American English dictionary "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828. he was a schoolteacher and wanted to simp[lify the language by removing 'useless' letters from words such as coloUr, freiGHt, and of course the big change, changing the -ise ending for -ize. Local differences also had a huge influence on the language, words coming from Native American(is thsat politically correct ? ) words, Yiddish words and phrases play a major part.
The Bulgarian language has around 110,000 words in its vocabulary.
There is no such thing as "the Indian language" but it's a general rule that for any language on earth, it's not possible to count the words, because there is no universal definition of what a word is. But most estimates place the number of words per language at between 40,000 and 160,000 words.Note: English is an exception. It has the largest number of words of any language in the world, estimated at 170,000 to 250,000 words. No language has more words than English.