My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜
Defining consonants as requiring the mouth to close is pretty alien to me -- as it excludes almost all of the sounds. The only English sounds that require me to do something I consider closing the mouth are /b/, /m/, /p/, and arguably /f/ and /v/. It doesn't make more sense when I try to squish the definition of a closed mouth. If it means the vocal track being blocked somewhere in the mouth area, then all the fricatives don't meet the definition. If it means moving the jaw upwards, it's literally none of the sounds -- I can position my jaw such that I can make all of the English sounds and all of the non-English sounds I know of without moving my jaw.
Actually a consonant is every sound in producing which we force the airflow to meet a hindrance in the mouth OR force the airflow to go through space between organs of articulation which are very close to each other in the moment of producing the sound. At least that's what I was taught at the university.
There is a short poem in Scots that consists entirely of vowels. Oo? Aye oo, Ae oo? Aye ae oo. Aw ae oo? Aye aw ae oo. translates to Wool? Yes wool, One wool? Yes one wool. All one wool? Yes all one wool. Hehe.
I really love you’re etymology videos! But I wasn’t super hot about this one. Consonants are not just sounds that are made by closing the mouth, but rather are made by restricting airflow through articulators (teeth, tongue, lips, nose, etc) to create turbulent airflow. With the exception of labial consonants ([b] [p] [f] [v] etc.), you can pronounce pretty much any consonant with your mouth open. By contrast, vowels are made by letting the sound resonate through the mouth without turbulence. The reason that “w” [w] and “y” [j] are considered semi-vowels is not because of how the letters are used, but because they have properties similar to both consonants and vowels. In semi-vowels, articulators DO cause turbulent airflow, but less so than other consonants. The “w” [w] and “y” [j] compare with the vowels “oo” [u] and “ee” [i], but there are other semi-vowels in human languages. In fact, in some dialects of English, most notably Standard American, “r” [ɹ] is also considered a semi-vowel, where the proper vowel is usually spelled like “er” or “ir” [ɚ] or [ɝ]. Also, “h” [h] is not a vowel. The English “H” is usually articulated in the throat by a small organ called the glottis. This can vary by dialect and the surrounding phonetic environment.
It's a nice channel with a lot of educational videos but I really wouldn't rely on it for linguistics. There are a lot of errors and misunderstandings in this video
@@ph1l69consonant definition, some specific sound (namely approximate) is really just way to produce consonant, and sorting vowels that ignore unit of vowels sound (namely monothongs, diphthongs, tripthongs)
Polish has 9 vowel graphemes but only 6 vowel phonemes. A = AH E = EH *I = EE O = OH *U/Ó = OO Y = Y in rhythm Ą & Ę are O & E respectively followed by a nasal coda. *I and U can become consonants. I can become a Y-sound in York as palatalisation if it's after a consonant and before a vowel. U can become a W-sound when in a diphthong.
In Serbian we have 5 vowels A = AH E = EH I = EE O = OH U = OO And R can sometimes assume the role of a vowel if it is between consonants, like in the word: Prst (finger)
@@miksuko Then how would you pronounce Prst? We can, and with ease, thanks to thrilled R. If not for that, it would be a word consisting of four consonants, and that doesn't make sense in any language
Two key vowel sound you missed are The ah version of a. Like a in bath in many varieties of English (or like the a cart without the r sound). And the schwa vowel, which is lazy version of basically every vowel letter!
Mate, approximants are consonants! The sounds that require the mouth to close are bilabial consonants: /b/, /m/, /p/, and maybe labiodental consonants: /v/ and /f/. To sound the latter two, the bottom lip touches the front teeth; is the mouth closing to make those sounds? C, D, G, H, J, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, X, Z, Ð, and Þ are consonants that allow the mouth to remain opened.
A better definition of a consonant would be a sound produced by restricting air flow in some way, whether that be with your throat, tongue, teeth, lips, or some combination thereof. Also, "vowels" that combine two basic vowel sounds--such as "oi"--are more properly referred to as diphthongs.
Before diving into a problem I had with this video, I would like to preface this all with the mention that I am a fan of your videos as etymology is a topic that I enjoy learning more about. However, this video genuinely frustrated me at times. In the beginning, I was worried but was relieved when you finally mentioned that letters are not vowels... before you then treated them as such for the rest of the video. The way you're describing English's use of Y as a vowel is incorrect. English uses the letter Y to represent different vowel sounds, most commonly /i/ and /ai/, but not to represent the /j/ sound (the "yuh" sound) like the Welsh do with the letter W being used to represent the /W/ sound. English does use the /j/ /W/ sounds as semi-vowels in diphthongs (semi-diphthongs? Mono-and-a-half-thongs? I need to email my professor) but that is not what you're discribing here. One final, parting point. The word wry contains... no semivowels, despite the fact you claim that is the only thing is contains. For completion's sake, it's pronunciation is /ɻaɪ/. I want to reiterate this is not a mean-spirited comment, I just don't want the perpetuation of the common misconception that letters and the sounds they represent are one and the same. Thank you.
note: consonants dont require closing your mouth, they just require a relatively more restricted vocal tract when producing the sound also consonant and vowel do refer to the sounds but also the letter lol everything else spot on (i think), love ur vids edit: also technically w is most of the time distinct in that its a velar approximant as well as a bilabial one but thats more a fun fact i wanna share rather than something that u got wrong lol
In Alaska there is an Athabascan language called Dena'ina. I'm Kenaitze Indian and we speak Dena'ina. It used to be called Tanina because of the Russians. But we have done huge restoration projects for our oral language and it's now a written language which means they made an alphabet. And in Dena'ina there are only 4 vowels. Also Dena'ina is part of the Na-dene language family and we have a lot of cognates and shared words with Navajo. I would be thrilled to see a video on indigenous languages.
In Filipino we follow the traditional 5-vowel pattern and also have some diphthongs: aw - as in loud ay - as in eye oy - as in boy (There are possibly more but the others are not often used)
Since Y is a full vowel in Swedish I was so confused when trying to learn English! I think we have 17 vowel sounds and 9 vowel letters, but IDK confused myself again trying to count them :)
@@Furienna Jag menade att o kan uttalas på 3 sätt och ett av de sätten är samma som korta å.Och kort ä och e har samma ljud, det var det jag enade med förvirrande :)
H isn't a vowel. In the IPA, it's listed as a consonant (voiceless glottal fricative). It requires the glottis and the larynx coming together. Also if it is a vowel, what's its vowel height, frontness, formants, etc?
In Dutch you (sometimes) distinguish between long and short vowels. Names have combinations like aa, oo, ee, but usually not uu or ii for some reason. Though we also have combinations like oe, ui, au, eu, etc
We used to do something similar in English, but over time our vowel pronunciation shifted while a lot of spellings remained the same (which is one part of why English spelling is so odd), so double-vowel spellings stopped having that significance.
The long i is written as ie (this is a remnant of the old Dutch spelling where long vowels were written as the vowel+e) and uu exsists, like in uur, huur, buur, kuur...
I'm sorry, but I can't agree that R or L or H are wovels. This is how the consonants are divided at least in Swedish: Approximants: J, L, R, W Nasals: M, N Clusiles: B, D, G, K, Q, P, T Fricatives: F, H, S, V, Z Mixed: C, X
The only consonants that require you to close your mouth, are labial plosives and fricatives b/f/m/p/v. All other consonants can be made with an open mouth. What distinguishes consonants from vowels is that consonants always require some level of restrictive airflow. Vowels are formed by how you shape the mouth.
This must be an education difference, because anyone who went to school in the USA would include "sometimes Y" in their list of vowels. I cant think of a situation where a psrson wouldnt include Y
My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a bloody Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜
We have five vowels in Swahili phonology - a, e, i , o ,u - vowels can be long by doubling them and w and y are considered sounding like vowels despite being consonants (w and y -nusuvokali), w an y are semi-vowels in Swahili
I'm used to this channel making a lot of mistakes but there were so many inaccurate statements in this video I'm wondering if this is intentional disinformation.
Vowels are complicated. Patrick mentionned that a number of times in the video. And judging by the number of comment stating that Patrick 'is wrong'--yet bringing up different and often contradicting arguments, I have to agree--vowels are indeed complicated.
I think one thing that also sets H apart is the fact that it's unvoiced. All other sounds you mentioned are voiced, which sets H apart. It's a weird sound, anyways, because it's like the absence of the others. It's unvoiced, open-mouthed, no stops or fricatives or whatever. I would say it's like the number zero, the perennial weird one that doesn't fit anywhere, but we put it in one place almost arbitrarily.
Like the Swahili word maana which is meaning, the double /a/ is stressed long vowel since that /a/ is doubled, various indigenous languages in Kenya also double vowels to make long vowels
You don't have to close your mouth to sound out most consonants, such as c, s, k, l, r, t, w, y, etc. so that is not a good definition. It's more that, unlike vowels, with consonants your lips touch or your tongue makes contact (with the roof of your mouth, teeth).
4:49 you didn't wanna do another take of that? that is surely not the sound in the word cat. a sound that the letter 'a' makes for sure, but not in the word 'cat'
When you pronounced the name of "R," I noticed that not only did you _not_ pronounce the actual consonant sound /ɹ/, but you _also_ pronounced it entirely as a vowel, and specifically a vowel that appeared nowhere on your list of 15, namely /ɑː/. Your list of 15 seems to be trying to stick too closely with the 5 vowel letters and the "long" and "short" distinction. Also, the 5 vowel letters representing the most common vowels in the English language? _The_ most common vowel in the English language is represented but precisely _none of them._ Dr. Geoff Lindsey has a great video and article describing the vowels in Received Pronunciation, but works surprisingly well even for non-British accents. His system consists of 20 vowels split into 4 categories: short monophthongs, /j/ diphthongs, /w/ diphthongs, and "long vowels," which in rhotic dialects actually (mostly) become the r-colored vowels. Alternatively, you can say that there are only 7 vowels (maybe a couple more), and 3 "modifiers" in a sense: /j/, /w/, and /ɹ/.
Except they kind of _don't._ It's more accurate to say they change based on a following glide. "I" is closer to /aj/, "E" is closer to /ɪj/, "A" is closer to /ej/ (pay no attention to how none of those use their own letter in their pronunciation), "O" is closer to /ow/, and "U" is closer to /uw/. The JOIN and DOWN listed in the "other category" actually belong with these being /oj/ and /aw/ respectively. There are some accents that do distinguish by vowel length, but other accents distinguish those sounds by the presence of an "r."
I have two objections: (1) It may be that in linguistics, vowels are sounds but not letters, but I venture to guess that when most if not all of us learned the alphabet in school, we learned that a, e, i, o, and u were vowels (besides, you can buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune); (2) I don't know if this is still true, but when I was in school in the 70s, we learned that "cwm" was the only English word that used 'w' as its only vowel. We were taught that "cwm" meant valley and then we never heard the word again. So, as far as I'm concerned, "cwm" is an English word. 😛
I've never heard of h being described as a vowel before, and I'm pretty sure it isn't one by any definition. A vowel is produced with just the vocal tract, lips and sometimes and tongue, but without restricting the flow of air out the mouth. H is a fricative consonant because it creates sound from friction somewhere in the mouth, in the case of h from the throat. I've heard it before that h is just the sound of normal breathing, but I don't think that's true either. For me at least, it requires a slight tightening of the throat. Also, and the main distiction for me, is that all vowels in the vast majority of languages are voiced. (I have heard of unvoiced vowels in some languages, but I've never heard them don't know how they're pronounced. In any case we don't have them in English.) However h is, in the vast majority of cases, an unvoiced sound. A voiced equivalent also exists in some languages, but when I try to pronounce it I have to tighten the throat more than with an unvoiced h, making it sound even less like a vowel. I like that this channel is delving into linguistics and phonetics, but things like this will be confusing for people with less knowledge. However I'm not a qualified linguist, and I might be wrong, in which case I'm happy to be corrected.
I know im 4 months late for this, but! The voiced /h/ your talking about is /ɦ/, which is foten called the "Voiced Glottal Fricative", but it's actually not voiced. Glottal sounds, to my knowledge, cannot be voiced. /h/ and /ɦ/ are both not vowels by any means
He points it out, but it is actually both, vowels are also a graph sign. It's just that only in some specific context letter vowels are refered without meaning the sound vowels.
In my language, Bangla, Consonant are defined as sounds that is produced when air coming out causes friction with part of our vocal appendage, at least during part of their pronounciation. Volwers are, that come out of the throat without any friction. In that way, L, V, H, C are no way vowels and are definitely consonant. In my language, consonants are also categorized according to the dominant part of the mouth which is required to constrict the air to produce that produce that sound. For example, 'L' is a upper teeth consonant, while 'P' is a leap consonant. Somehow I find this definition and categorization superior to what described in this video. As this is precise and clear cut. Though its old and might need some update, but its still more precise.
Danish has a lot of vowel sounds. 22 at least. Some estimate it at 40. The nine vowels in the Danish/Norwegian alphabet: *a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø* & *å.* Yes, *y* is a vowel, pure and simple. The many vowel sounds is probably one of the reasons it's a difficult language to learn for foreigners. Danes are tuned in to hear the small nuances, where other don't. It's basically impossible to explain to native english speakers how the *æ, ø* and *å* are pronounced, not to mention the danish y-vowel.
I disagree with your definition of a consonant. I'd define a vowel as "a sound that you make without making a connected articulation in your mouth." a consonant is therefore "something that you need to articulate with your throat, tongue, or lips." These descriptions explain why 'r, l ,w ,y' are still considered vowels or approximates. (im only somewhat versed in these topics so i welcome anyone's own opinions on my views. i dont intend for this to come off as a know-it-all comment. I just genuinely like to talk about this stuff and would like to hear other's two cents about this) Also, the English "long/short" distinction is completely senseless. In most languages, long and short vowels are made with the same-ish vowel sound but the vowels are actually said longer. The only reason we use the terms "long and short" in English is because English, Francophile scholars wanted to make the language more like french. So they just adopted the term and made up something for them. The actual sounds are pronounced fairly different from each other in english. In English, true "long/short" distinctions are made by the consonant that comes after the vowel. For example, "leaf" vs "leave". "leaf" ends in a voiceless fricative and therefore is pronounced shorter than "leave"
I consider the short o sound a variant of a. I vary on whether I lump it in with aw. I consider the a in Dad and Dan to be the same even though I pronounce them differently. I think phonetically the long A sound is best represented by ei.
So why isn’t F N S and V considered vowels? I don’t think you ever close your mouth or stop your air like C in click when pronouncing those? F and V get close but not quite.
He's wrong about the definition of a consonant. The only consonants which require a completely closed mouth are b, p and m. A consonant is rather a sound made by blocking or restricting the flow of air through the mouth, which f, n, s and v all do.
And then there are the things that other languages do with H. Spanish: Doesn't even acknowledge its existence in their words. Irish: Yeets lenition at you and runs away.
imagine you're talking to a linguist and you're TALKING ABOUT LONG AND SHORT VOWELS LIKE THAT MEANS THE PRONUNCIATION "oh no no no there's 15 vowels in English. cuz there's the long and short vowels…" "/mia dio/… /ju kant bi fʌkɪŋ siriəs/… /ʍaɪ du ju θɪŋk aɪm ə prəfɛʃn̩l̩ lɪŋgwɪst/?? /aɪ noʊ maɪ ʃɪt ɚaʊnd vaʊl̩z/!"
@@pedromenchik1961 it isn't /aɪ/, an open front unrounded vowel followed by a near-close unrounded. It's actually /aj/ an open front unrounded vowel followed by the voiced palatal approximant consonant.
I get what you're saying. I guess it comes to whether you consider approximants and semi-vowels as distinct sounds or not. Also some of these are accent-dependent
"consonants are defined by closing your mouth" uh I only close my mouth to say b, m and p. That definition sounds wrong. I don't close my mouth to sau L, but I can't say "L" on its own without a vowel sound. ...I and E need the tongue. "I" pronounced "eee" you have to narrow the throat for it. That new definition is absurdly arbitrary compared to the traditional one.
I could see V being included with w I as natural born American only differentiate in the creation by moving my bottom lip to touch my upper teeth instead of my other lip.
/w/ is a double articulated consonant, it's an approximant that is both labial, so the lips gets close to each other, but don't touch, and velar, so the tongue gets close to the vellum, the soft palate, a part of the mouth way back in the mouth's roof. /v/ is just an labiodental approximant, so the bottom lip approaches the teeth. They actually consonants, though.
the “not closing your mouth” analogy is weird and oversimplified because really over 90% of sounds would be called vowels or approximants really only p, b, m, f, v, and i guess technically s and z would be considered consonants as you could easily pronounce t, d, k, g, etc. without closing your mouth approximants are called approximants I'm pretty sure because your tongue doesn't fully touch the place of articulation, iirc, l is referred to a liquid consonant, probably because your tongue does infact touch the articulated place
If it wasn’t for all the words, i think C might had a chance at being a Vowel since you can tecnically make C sound like “cuh” without closing your mouth
Linguist here. I think phrasing it as “closing your mouth” was slightly misleading, really it’s any closure/constriction anywhere in the vocal tract, not just at the lips. With /k/ the airflow is completely stopped and so is definitely a consonant
"Cwm" is just a different language using the same letters differently (which every language is entitled to do). Of course, they couldn't use a u, as the English would inevitably pronounce it "kyum". But what's wrong with "koom"?
What are bowels? Your bowels make up part of your lower digestive tract and consist of your intestines, rectum and anus (bottom). Your rectum is where stools (poo) are stored. Your brain sends messages to your rectum when it is full and needs to be emptied.
As a PHONETIC language speaker, English is just atrocious It should follow a bit more the IPA system Enough? Enuff But if we truly go more phonetic then: Cake -> keik
And also, English has a lot of varieties so a single transcription more phonetic is very hard to do, just minor tweaks can be done at this stage. They would be great though, I think.
@@iantino agreed, many linguists would have to discuss and I’d love to join such a discussion lol I wanna get rid of inconsistencies American spellings improved in some aspects but forgot others Colour -> color 👍 Programme -> program 👍 Centre -> Center 👍 Table -> table ❌ it should be like “tabel” or “tabol” Colonel -> cornel, kornel, kernol or kernel Etc More consistency: Flash Elephant -> eleFant Chaos -> Caos or kaos Make “ch” be like in “charm” And so on
@@n1hondude I think that would be a pretty hard quest, and I think it's fine having some inconsistencies, either by show etymology or more clearly the radical. But there's a bigger problem, for what I know, even transcriptions in some of the most respected and used sources are wrong. Like voiceless consonants being fully mistranscribed after as any consonant cluster beginning with /s/ and a voiceless stop, I'm not aware of this happening through listening, i. e. "discuss" and "disgust" sounding the same. And diphthongs being straight up wrong with two or three vowels together, the "I" sounds to me like /aj/ not /aɪ/ same with all diphthongs traditionally transcribed as two vowels (I'm a non native, so maybe it would affect my perception, although I'm pretty confident about it.)
@@iantino You seem to know more about English phonology than most native English speakers. You are correct, "discuss" and "disgust" have the same consonant cluster in the middle (and word-final t's are often dropped of said with a glotal stop). This is because English stops are distinguished more by aspiration than voicing, and are always unvoiced following a /s/. Similarly, it is likely smarter to transcribe the diphthongs with following /j/ and /w/ sounds.
They are different in most kinds of British English and some other dialects. RP (more or less standard British) has more back rounded vowels (ɔ and ɒ in the International Phonetic Alphabet) than general American English, which only has unrounded [ɑ], which the others historically fused with. The main phenomenon here is the “cot-caught merger” if you wanted to investigate more, so for an American cot and caught (or dog and hop) usually have the same vowel, but they are distinct in RP and some other dialects.
New Yorker here and I pronounce "dog" as "dawg," and 'HOP' using the "aah" sound. And to use alexanderkelsey202's example, I also "pronounce "cot" using the "aah" sound and "caught" using the "aw" sound. 😆
@@mertatakan7591 haha ya probably, we dont use the latin alphabet. ය,ර,ල,ව are called ardha swara or semi vowels in my language. Our alphabets or abugidas what people call it comes like a periodic table. This particular group we call that name.
(A /E/ Ë /I/ O/U/ Y ) 7 vowels not just of Albanian Language but of all kind humans voice that can produced as a vowel so Whos the mother of Languages😂
your definition of consonants is pretty bad, as mentioned in other comments. consonants require you to articulate, while vowels require you to change the shape of your mouth and have a free path for the flow of air. vowels are timbres, while consonants are noise also, H is a basically a puff of air that does not require your voice to be produced, while a vowel is the sound the voice makes when passing freely through a particular mouth shape, that's why H isn't a vowel
H is not a phonetic vowel. You shouldn't work with definitions you don't understand. The video would have been much better if you engaged yourself with the Sonority Hierarchy. But you never really made the difference between sounds and letters even tho you introduce it at the beginning.
What's your favourite vowel? I love me an O.
E
My favourite is a sometimes vowel: R
Nvm I like W
My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜
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Defining consonants as requiring the mouth to close is pretty alien to me -- as it excludes almost all of the sounds. The only English sounds that require me to do something I consider closing the mouth are /b/, /m/, /p/, and arguably /f/ and /v/. It doesn't make more sense when I try to squish the definition of a closed mouth. If it means the vocal track being blocked somewhere in the mouth area, then all the fricatives don't meet the definition. If it means moving the jaw upwards, it's literally none of the sounds -- I can position my jaw such that I can make all of the English sounds and all of the non-English sounds I know of without moving my jaw.
Not close the mouth, move the lips.
Actually a consonant is every sound in producing which we force the airflow to meet a hindrance in the mouth OR force the airflow to go through space between organs of articulation which are very close to each other in the moment of producing the sound. At least that's what I was taught at the university.
@@terrylambert8149 I don't have to move my lips to say "go", "can" and "act"
@@terrylambert8149 /b/, /p/, /v/, /f/, /m/, and /w/ are the only ones that require lip movement from me.
@@iantino glottal stops
There is a short poem in Scots that consists entirely of vowels.
Oo?
Aye oo,
Ae oo?
Aye ae oo.
Aw ae oo?
Aye aw ae oo.
translates to Wool? Yes wool, One wool? Yes one wool. All one wool?
Yes all one wool.
Hehe.
I really love you’re etymology videos! But I wasn’t super hot about this one. Consonants are not just sounds that are made by closing the mouth, but rather are made by restricting airflow through articulators (teeth, tongue, lips, nose, etc) to create turbulent airflow. With the exception of labial consonants ([b] [p] [f] [v] etc.), you can pronounce pretty much any consonant with your mouth open. By contrast, vowels are made by letting the sound resonate through the mouth without turbulence. The reason that “w” [w] and “y” [j] are considered semi-vowels is not because of how the letters are used, but because they have properties similar to both consonants and vowels. In semi-vowels, articulators DO cause turbulent airflow, but less so than other consonants. The “w” [w] and “y” [j] compare with the vowels “oo” [u] and “ee” [i], but there are other semi-vowels in human languages. In fact, in some dialects of English, most notably Standard American, “r” [ɹ] is also considered a semi-vowel, where the proper vowel is usually spelled like “er” or “ir” [ɚ] or [ɝ]. Also, “h” [h] is not a vowel. The English “H” is usually articulated in the throat by a small organ called the glottis. This can vary by dialect and the surrounding phonetic environment.
NameExplain is become more and more about linguistics and I’m all in for it
Yet he keeps making mistakes...
Its always been about linguistics, etymology specifically
It's a nice channel with a lot of educational videos but I really wouldn't rely on it for linguistics. There are a lot of errors and misunderstandings in this video
@@joeybarber5273Which mistakes did he make?
@@ph1l69consonant definition, some specific sound (namely approximate) is really just way to produce consonant, and sorting vowels that ignore unit of vowels sound (namely monothongs, diphthongs, tripthongs)
Polish has 9 vowel graphemes but only 6 vowel phonemes.
A = AH
E = EH
*I = EE
O = OH
*U/Ó = OO
Y = Y in rhythm
Ą & Ę are O & E respectively followed by a nasal coda.
*I and U can become consonants. I can become a Y-sound in York as palatalisation if it's after a consonant and before a vowel. U can become a W-sound when in a diphthong.
In Serbian we have 5 vowels
A = AH
E = EH
I = EE
O = OH
U = OO
And R can sometimes assume the role of a vowel if it is between consonants, like in the word: Prst (finger)
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How would you pronounce the R vowel?
@@modmaker7617 Like in Spanish, I think. It's a thrilled R, a vibrating R, or something like that
@@Maus_IndahausI don't think a trilled R can be considered a vowel in any situation.
@@miksuko Then how would you pronounce Prst? We can, and with ease, thanks to thrilled R. If not for that, it would be a word consisting of four consonants, and that doesn't make sense in any language
To me it was A E I O U and sometimes Y
It is A, E, I, O, sometimes R, sometimes U, and sometimes, Y. Let's hear the arguments here.
I can't take this video. "A" doesn't make an Ah sound. Damn British people.
Chute doesn't use a long "U" sound. Cute is a more accurate answer.
The lips aren't the only point in the mouth to be closed where sounds are designated to be a consonant.
To be a vowel it doesn't need to be the sole vowel.
Is anyone else seeing the word AUTISM in the thumbnail?
I see it 😂
Was just about to comment this lol
Two key vowel sound you missed are
The ah version of a. Like a in bath in many varieties of English (or like the a cart without the r sound).
And the schwa vowel, which is lazy version of basically every vowel letter!
In Swedish, we have 9 vowels (or 18 if you consider that all of them come in two different variants): A, E, I, O, U, Y, Å, Ä and Ö.
Could you do a vid on why Q and X can sometimes be pronounced as K and Z?
Mate, approximants are consonants! The sounds that require the mouth to close are bilabial consonants: /b/, /m/, /p/, and maybe labiodental consonants: /v/ and /f/. To sound the latter two, the bottom lip touches the front teeth; is the mouth closing to make those sounds? C, D, G, H, J, K, L, N, Q, R, S, T, X, Z, Ð, and Þ are consonants that allow the mouth to remain opened.
A better definition of a consonant would be a sound produced by restricting air flow in some way, whether that be with your throat, tongue, teeth, lips, or some combination thereof. Also, "vowels" that combine two basic vowel sounds--such as "oi"--are more properly referred to as diphthongs.
Before diving into a problem I had with this video, I would like to preface this all with the mention that I am a fan of your videos as etymology is a topic that I enjoy learning more about. However, this video genuinely frustrated me at times. In the beginning, I was worried but was relieved when you finally mentioned that letters are not vowels... before you then treated them as such for the rest of the video. The way you're describing English's use of Y as a vowel is incorrect. English uses the letter Y to represent different vowel sounds, most commonly /i/ and /ai/, but not to represent the /j/ sound (the "yuh" sound) like the Welsh do with the letter W being used to represent the /W/ sound. English does use the /j/ /W/ sounds as semi-vowels in diphthongs (semi-diphthongs? Mono-and-a-half-thongs? I need to email my professor) but that is not what you're discribing here.
One final, parting point. The word wry contains... no semivowels, despite the fact you claim that is the only thing is contains. For completion's sake, it's pronunciation is /ɻaɪ/.
I want to reiterate this is not a mean-spirited comment, I just don't want the perpetuation of the common misconception that letters and the sounds they represent are one and the same. Thank you.
This was a particularly interesting Name Explain. I learned so much. Thanks, Patrick.
note: consonants dont require closing your mouth, they just require a relatively more restricted vocal tract when producing the sound
also consonant and vowel do refer to the sounds but also the letter lol
everything else spot on (i think), love ur vids
edit: also technically w is most of the time distinct in that its a velar approximant as well as a bilabial one but thats more a fun fact i wanna share rather than something that u got wrong lol
his reasoning for H not being a vowel is wrong too, i'm pretty sure
@@oravlaful Yep. The reason is that /h/ restrict the glottis.
@@iantino H is also voiceless, while vowels are necessarily voiced
@@oravlaful yeah that one too oops, thx for adding
@@oravlaful Not necessarily, there is voiced consonants and devoiced vowels, the latter being way unusual, but yet exists.
In Alaska there is an Athabascan language called Dena'ina. I'm Kenaitze Indian and we speak Dena'ina. It used to be called Tanina because of the Russians. But we have done huge restoration projects for our oral language and it's now a written language which means they made an alphabet. And in Dena'ina there are only 4 vowels. Also Dena'ina is part of the Na-dene language family and we have a lot of cognates and shared words with Navajo. I would be thrilled to see a video on indigenous languages.
In Filipino we follow the traditional 5-vowel pattern and also have some diphthongs:
aw - as in loud
ay - as in eye
oy - as in boy
(There are possibly more but the others are not often used)
Since Y is a full vowel in Swedish I was so confused when trying to learn English! I think we have 17 vowel sounds and 9 vowel letters, but IDK confused myself again trying to count them :)
Vi har 9 vokaler, eller 18 om man menar att A, E, I, O, U, Y, Å, Ä och Ö har två varianter var och alla de vatianterna är varsin vokal.
@@Furienna Jag menade att o kan uttalas på 3 sätt och ett av de sätten är samma som korta å.Och kort ä och e har samma ljud, det var det jag enade med förvirrande :)
H isn't a vowel. In the IPA, it's listed as a consonant (voiceless glottal fricative). It requires the glottis and the larynx coming together. Also if it is a vowel, what's its vowel height, frontness, formants, etc?
In Dutch you (sometimes) distinguish between long and short vowels. Names have combinations like aa, oo, ee, but usually not uu or ii for some reason. Though we also have combinations like oe, ui, au, eu, etc
We used to do something similar in English, but over time our vowel pronunciation shifted while a lot of spellings remained the same (which is one part of why English spelling is so odd), so double-vowel spellings stopped having that significance.
The long i is written as ie (this is a remnant of the old Dutch spelling where long vowels were written as the vowel+e) and uu exsists, like in uur, huur, buur, kuur...
@@Olafje damn, how did I miss all the uu words back then? Also interesting on the ie. Didn't know that.
We do something similar in Swahili, we double vowels to make them long vowels like aa, ee, ii, oo, uu
I'm sorry, but I can't agree that R or L or H are wovels.
This is how the consonants are divided at least in Swedish:
Approximants: J, L, R, W
Nasals: M, N
Clusiles: B, D, G, K, Q, P, T
Fricatives: F, H, S, V, Z
Mixed: C, X
From the brief time i spent in New Zealand i'm convinced that their approach to vowel usage defies all reason and logic.
Countries that use the /aeiou/ vowel system:Mapona(Toki Pona),Spanish(Argentina,Colombia,Mexico,Peru,Spain),Japan,Italy,Serbia...
Actually, H isn't phonetically a vowel. Vowels have to be voiced. H isn't.
The only consonants that require you to close your mouth, are labial plosives and fricatives b/f/m/p/v. All other consonants can be made with an open mouth. What distinguishes consonants from vowels is that consonants always require some level of restrictive airflow. Vowels are formed by how you shape the mouth.
A in Cat is actually Ä sound. :D
its a /æ/ sound
wtf is ä
@@Somebodyherefornow looking up æ Wikipedia, it is the sound that Ä letter makes, so yes.
@@Somebodyherefornow it's, generally in this context, mostly a transcription of /æ/.
This must be an education difference, because anyone who went to school in the USA would include "sometimes Y" in their list of vowels. I cant think of a situation where a psrson wouldnt include Y
i think learning ipa would be really useful for these types of videos-
He really should learn the IPA to understand that h is not a vowel
My favorite is when the word "favorite" is spelled without the offensive vowel "u" as I don't want Noah Webster rolling over in his grave. I am after all a bloody Yank not a bloody Limey. -Dave the Bloody Yank 😜
We have five vowels in Swahili phonology - a, e, i , o ,u - vowels can be long by doubling them and w and y are considered sounding like vowels despite being consonants (w and y -nusuvokali), w an y are semi-vowels in Swahili
I'm used to this channel making a lot of mistakes but there were so many inaccurate statements in this video I'm wondering if this is intentional disinformation.
Vowels are complicated. Patrick mentionned that a number of times in the video. And judging by the number of comment stating that Patrick 'is wrong'--yet bringing up different and often contradicting arguments, I have to agree--vowels are indeed complicated.
While spoken Hebrew has vowel sounds, written Hebrew has no letters that represent vowels.
I think one thing that also sets H apart is the fact that it's unvoiced. All other sounds you mentioned are voiced, which sets H apart. It's a weird sound, anyways, because it's like the absence of the others. It's unvoiced, open-mouthed, no stops or fricatives or whatever. I would say it's like the number zero, the perennial weird one that doesn't fit anywhere, but we put it in one place almost arbitrarily.
Like the Swahili word maana which is meaning, the double /a/ is stressed long vowel since that /a/ is doubled, various indigenous languages in Kenya also double vowels to make long vowels
H is not phonetically a vowel; it isn't vocalized.
There is unvoiced vowels. The reason is that H restricts the vocal tract in the glottis.
You don't have to close your mouth to sound out most consonants, such as c, s, k, l, r, t, w, y, etc. so that is not a good definition. It's more that, unlike vowels, with consonants your lips touch or your tongue makes contact (with the roof of your mouth, teeth).
4:49 you didn't wanna do another take of that? that is surely not the sound in the word cat.
a sound that the letter 'a' makes for sure, but not in the word 'cat'
Katsumotonese has seven vowels
A E Ê I O Ô U
/a ɛ eɪ i ɔ oʊ u/
As in car,egg,play,eat,corn,low,too
In Swahili, W and Y is sometimes seen as semi- vowels just like in English - we don't entirely close our mouths when we pronounce them
There was a song in the '80s called I.O.U. by Freeez.
As an portuguese speaker, english vowels+w+y are just out "A E I O U" vowels stacked in a trenchcoat
Vowels in England:Aa,Ae,Ar,Ao,Ee,Ei,Er,Eu,Ih,Oo,Ou,Or,Oi,Uu,Ur...
Vowels in Spain,Brazil:A,E,I,O,U
When you pronounced the name of "R," I noticed that not only did you _not_ pronounce the actual consonant sound /ɹ/, but you _also_ pronounced it entirely as a vowel, and specifically a vowel that appeared nowhere on your list of 15, namely /ɑː/. Your list of 15 seems to be trying to stick too closely with the 5 vowel letters and the "long" and "short" distinction.
Also, the 5 vowel letters representing the most common vowels in the English language? _The_ most common vowel in the English language is represented but precisely _none of them._
Dr. Geoff Lindsey has a great video and article describing the vowels in Received Pronunciation, but works surprisingly well even for non-British accents. His system consists of 20 vowels split into 4 categories: short monophthongs, /j/ diphthongs, /w/ diphthongs, and "long vowels," which in rhotic dialects actually (mostly) become the r-colored vowels. Alternatively, you can say that there are only 7 vowels (maybe a couple more), and 3 "modifiers" in a sense: /j/, /w/, and /ɹ/.
Scots has an extra vowel from English l as PAY , HAY and WAY have a different vowel to SAY. That vowel is different to the English one in HIGH too.
As a non-native english-speaker it's really weird to me that vowels vary in duration of time instead of just sound.
Adam Neely has a video on Scotch Snaps that's about how vowel length affects how people write music. It's pretty interesting.
Except they kind of _don't._ It's more accurate to say they change based on a following glide. "I" is closer to /aj/, "E" is closer to /ɪj/, "A" is closer to /ej/ (pay no attention to how none of those use their own letter in their pronunciation), "O" is closer to /ow/, and "U" is closer to /uw/. The JOIN and DOWN listed in the "other category" actually belong with these being /oj/ and /aw/ respectively.
There are some accents that do distinguish by vowel length, but other accents distinguish those sounds by the presence of an "r."
I have two objections: (1) It may be that in linguistics, vowels are sounds but not letters, but I venture to guess that when most if not all of us learned the alphabet in school, we learned that a, e, i, o, and u were vowels (besides, you can buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune); (2) I don't know if this is still true, but when I was in school in the 70s, we learned that "cwm" was the only English word that used 'w' as its only vowel. We were taught that "cwm" meant valley and then we never heard the word again. So, as far as I'm concerned, "cwm" is an English word. 😛
I've never heard of h being described as a vowel before, and I'm pretty sure it isn't one by any definition. A vowel is produced with just the vocal tract, lips and sometimes and tongue, but without restricting the flow of air out the mouth. H is a fricative consonant because it creates sound from friction somewhere in the mouth, in the case of h from the throat. I've heard it before that h is just the sound of normal breathing, but I don't think that's true either. For me at least, it requires a slight tightening of the throat.
Also, and the main distiction for me, is that all vowels in the vast majority of languages are voiced. (I have heard of unvoiced vowels in some languages, but I've never heard them don't know how they're pronounced. In any case we don't have them in English.) However h is, in the vast majority of cases, an unvoiced sound. A voiced equivalent also exists in some languages, but when I try to pronounce it I have to tighten the throat more than with an unvoiced h, making it sound even less like a vowel.
I like that this channel is delving into linguistics and phonetics, but things like this will be confusing for people with less knowledge. However I'm not a qualified linguist, and I might be wrong, in which case I'm happy to be corrected.
I know im 4 months late for this, but! The voiced /h/ your talking about is /ɦ/, which is foten called the "Voiced Glottal Fricative", but it's actually not voiced. Glottal sounds, to my knowledge, cannot be voiced. /h/ and /ɦ/ are both not vowels by any means
@@nordlys-45Yes they can be voiced just like the voiced glottal fricative you mentioned so all you know is wrong and they are not vowels
Serbia also has five vowels:aeiou(аеиоу)
Serbian consonants:bcdfghjklmnprstvz(бцдфгхjклмнпрствз)
Other letters:ч,ш,ж,ль,нь,s(dz)
Variant:дикпт(guknm)
The vowel of "turn": Am I a joke to you?
Also "chute" and "soon" have the same vowel sound
Those are letters. Graphic symbols. Consonants and vowels are sounds.
he literally says that in the video
Graphemes ≠ Phonemes
It's a difficult concept for people to grasp.
letters are intrinsically connected to their sounds. so while talking about a certain language, letters might as well be vowels and consonants
He points it out, but it is actually both, vowels are also a graph sign. It's just that only in some specific context letter vowels are refered without meaning the sound vowels.
@@oravlaful Most "vowel letters" in English represent diphthongs by default.
In my language, Bangla, Consonant are defined as sounds that is produced when air coming out causes friction with part of our vocal appendage, at least during part of their pronounciation. Volwers are, that come out of the throat without any friction. In that way, L, V, H, C are no way vowels and are definitely consonant. In my language, consonants are also categorized according to the dominant part of the mouth which is required to constrict the air to produce that produce that sound. For example, 'L' is a upper teeth consonant, while 'P' is a leap consonant. Somehow I find this definition and categorization superior to what described in this video. As this is precise and clear cut. Though its old and might need some update, but its still more precise.
It's Bengali not Bangla
@@mertatakan7591 Bengali is a British corruption. Why ud I call my language in a corrupted British spelling?
Danish has a lot of vowel sounds. 22 at least. Some estimate it at 40.
The nine vowels in the Danish/Norwegian alphabet: *a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø* & *å.*
Yes, *y* is a vowel, pure and simple.
The many vowel sounds is probably one of the reasons it's a difficult language to learn for foreigners. Danes are tuned in to hear the small nuances, where other don't.
It's basically impossible to explain to native english speakers how the *æ, ø* and *å* are pronounced, not to mention the danish y-vowel.
In my experience “y” is practically impossible to explain to English speakers. Since the “ü” sound doesn’t exist in English.
Vowels:AEIOU
Semivowels:YWRH
Consanants:BCDÐFGIJKLMNOPQSTUVXZÞ
I disagree with your definition of a consonant. I'd define a vowel as "a sound that you make without making a connected articulation in your mouth." a consonant is therefore "something that you need to articulate with your throat, tongue, or lips." These descriptions explain why 'r, l ,w ,y' are still considered vowels or approximates.
(im only somewhat versed in these topics so i welcome anyone's own opinions on my views. i dont intend for this to come off as a know-it-all comment. I just genuinely like to talk about this stuff and would like to hear other's two cents about this)
Also, the English "long/short" distinction is completely senseless. In most languages, long and short vowels are made with the same-ish vowel sound but the vowels are actually said longer. The only reason we use the terms "long and short" in English is because English, Francophile scholars wanted to make the language more like french. So they just adopted the term and made up something for them. The actual sounds are pronounced fairly different from each other in english.
In English, true "long/short" distinctions are made by the consonant that comes after the vowel. For example, "leaf" vs "leave". "leaf" ends in a voiceless fricative and therefore is pronounced shorter than "leave"
can you please use the IPA
Finally a good comment
I consider the short o sound a variant of a. I vary on whether I lump it in with aw. I consider the a in Dad and Dan to be the same even though I pronounce them differently. I think phonetically the long A sound is best represented by ei.
So why isn’t F N S and V considered vowels? I don’t think you ever close your mouth or stop your air like C in click when pronouncing those? F and V get close but not quite.
He's wrong about the definition of a consonant. The only consonants which require a completely closed mouth are b, p and m. A consonant is rather a sound made by blocking or restricting the flow of air through the mouth, which f, n, s and v all do.
I love this channel!!!
And then there are the things that other languages do with H.
Spanish: Doesn't even acknowledge its existence in their words.
Irish: Yeets lenition at you and runs away.
imagine you're talking to a linguist and you're TALKING ABOUT LONG AND SHORT VOWELS LIKE THAT MEANS THE PRONUNCIATION
"oh no no no there's 15 vowels in English. cuz there's the long and short vowels…"
"/mia dio/… /ju kant bi fʌkɪŋ siriəs/… /ʍaɪ du ju θɪŋk aɪm ə prəfɛʃn̩l̩ lɪŋgwɪst/?? /aɪ noʊ maɪ ʃɪt ɚaʊnd vaʊl̩z/!"
How many vowels does your country have?
Italy:5!
Greece:7!
Finland:8!
UK:14???
Long vowels like "a", "i", "o" aren’t really single vowels, but rather diphthongs
And more, close diphthongs, since English "hates" hiatus. So it's a vowel followed by a semi-vowel
Diphthongs are two vowels sounds, going from one sound into another one. Long vowels don't involve transitioning to another vowel sound.
some of them do. When "a" is pronounced as "ey", those are actually 2 distinct vowel sounds
@@pedromenchik1961 it isn't /aɪ/, an open front unrounded vowel followed by a near-close unrounded.
It's actually /aj/ an open front unrounded vowel followed by the voiced palatal approximant consonant.
I get what you're saying. I guess it comes to whether you consider approximants and semi-vowels as distinct sounds or not. Also some of these are accent-dependent
missed opportunity for the short vowels: Pat (short for Patricia) pet pit pot put
pat is a literal english word
I like /e/, but not /E/ as much.
/E/ doesnt exist
Fun fact:With the top six letters in the thumbnail's ven-diagram, you can spell *AUTISM*
There are 7 vowls same as nusic notes. A E I O U Y Ë.
"consonants are defined by closing your mouth"
uh I only close my mouth to say b, m and p. That definition sounds wrong.
I don't close my mouth to sau L, but I can't say "L" on its own without a vowel sound.
...I and E need the tongue. "I" pronounced "eee" you have to narrow the throat for it.
That new definition is absurdly arbitrary compared to the traditional one.
I think he meant "stop air flux in the mouth" but it would exclude non-pulmonic and all glottals so…
I could see V being included with w I as natural born American only differentiate in the creation by moving my bottom lip to touch my upper teeth instead of my other lip.
/w/ is a double articulated consonant, it's an approximant that is both labial, so the lips gets close to each other, but don't touch, and velar, so the tongue gets close to the vellum, the soft palate, a part of the mouth way back in the mouth's roof.
/v/ is just an labiodental approximant, so the bottom lip approaches the teeth.
They actually consonants, though.
the “not closing your mouth” analogy is weird and oversimplified
because really over 90% of sounds would be called vowels or approximants
really only p, b, m, f, v, and i guess technically s and z would be considered consonants as you could easily pronounce t, d, k, g, etc. without closing your mouth
approximants are called approximants I'm pretty sure because your tongue doesn't fully touch the place of articulation, iirc, l is referred to a liquid consonant, probably because your tongue does infact touch the articulated place
If it wasn’t for all the words, i think C might had a chance at being a Vowel since you can tecnically make C sound like “cuh” without closing your mouth
Linguist here. I think phrasing it as “closing your mouth” was slightly misleading, really it’s any closure/constriction anywhere in the vocal tract, not just at the lips. With /k/ the airflow is completely stopped and so is definitely a consonant
So H is the tomato of English. Not exactly a fruit, and not exactly a vegetable
same with w
in Italian we still have as vowels A E I O U and Y
Just like english
How Argentinians pronounce English vowels😂😂😂
Cake(kahkay)
Type(teepay)
Hope(hohpay)
These(thaysay)
Rules(rooless)
"Cwm" is just a different language using the same letters differently (which every language is entitled to do). Of course, they couldn't use a u, as the English would inevitably pronounce it "kyum". But what's wrong with "koom"?
What are bowels? Your bowels make up part of your lower digestive tract and consist of your intestines, rectum and anus (bottom). Your rectum is where stools (poo) are stored. Your brain sends messages to your rectum when it is full and needs to be emptied.
What about the A in father? Neither long nor short.
It's the short o sound as in hot or cot.
1:20 littera vocalis pronounced in the most british way
As a PHONETIC language speaker, English is just atrocious
It should follow a bit more the IPA system
Enough? Enuff
But if we truly go more phonetic then:
Cake -> keik
It would be "keyk", not?
And also, English has a lot of varieties so a single transcription more phonetic is very hard to do, just minor tweaks can be done at this stage. They would be great though, I think.
@@iantino agreed, many linguists would have to discuss and I’d love to join such a discussion lol
I wanna get rid of inconsistencies
American spellings improved in some aspects but forgot others
Colour -> color 👍
Programme -> program 👍
Centre -> Center 👍
Table -> table ❌ it should be like “tabel” or “tabol”
Colonel -> cornel, kornel, kernol or kernel
Etc
More consistency:
Flash
Elephant -> eleFant
Chaos -> Caos or kaos
Make “ch” be like in “charm”
And so on
@@n1hondude I think that would be a pretty hard quest, and I think it's fine having some inconsistencies, either by show etymology or more clearly the radical.
But there's a bigger problem, for what I know, even transcriptions in some of the most respected and used sources are wrong. Like voiceless consonants being fully mistranscribed after as any consonant cluster beginning with /s/ and a voiceless stop, I'm not aware of this happening through listening, i. e. "discuss" and "disgust" sounding the same. And diphthongs being straight up wrong with two or three vowels together, the "I" sounds to me like /aj/ not /aɪ/ same with all diphthongs traditionally transcribed as two vowels (I'm a non native, so maybe it would affect my perception, although I'm pretty confident about it.)
@@iantino You seem to know more about English phonology than most native English speakers. You are correct, "discuss" and "disgust" have the same consonant cluster in the middle (and word-final t's are often dropped of said with a glotal stop). This is because English stops are distinguished more by aspiration than voicing, and are always unvoiced following a /s/. Similarly, it is likely smarter to transcribe the diphthongs with following /j/ and /w/ sounds.
"Dog" and "hop" are just using the "aah" sound. I don't know anyone outside of the University of Georgia that pronounces it as "dawg".
They are different in most kinds of British English and some other dialects. RP (more or less standard British) has more back rounded vowels (ɔ and ɒ in the International Phonetic Alphabet) than general American English, which only has unrounded [ɑ], which the others historically fused with. The main phenomenon here is the “cot-caught merger” if you wanted to investigate more, so for an American cot and caught (or dog and hop) usually have the same vowel, but they are distinct in RP and some other dialects.
New Yorker here and I pronounce "dog" as "dawg," and 'HOP' using the "aah" sound. And to use alexanderkelsey202's example, I also "pronounce "cot" using the "aah" sound and "caught" using the "aw" sound. 😆
Ðere Are 11 Vowels Ðey Are ijɪɛæåøöəʌɑ And åʰ
væwåʰlz
And just have to say typical northerner as his 15 English vowel sounds omits the southern English 'a' in 'bath' 🙂
In my language, sinhala, y,r,l,w are called semi vowels.
Thats wrong because y is a vowel (what you're talkimg about is probably /j/) and /j/ and /w/ are the only ones there that are semivowels.
@@mertatakan7591 haha ya probably, we dont use the latin alphabet. ය,ර,ල,ව are called ardha swara or semi vowels in my language. Our alphabets or abugidas what people call it comes like a periodic table. This particular group we call that name.
i think the letter Y is always a vowel
Did anyone else automatically see autism in the thumbnail, or is that just my neurodivergency acting up?
well the constanant definition you gave was kinda wrong cuz its acctually if any part of your mouth touches
We have 5 vowels, 16 consonants and 5 that we call them "foreigns" (a.k.a "straniere", and are J K W X Y)
In portuguese a,e,i,o,u, â, ê,ô, á,é,ó, ã,õ
And sometimes Y!
(A /E/ Ë /I/ O/U/ Y ) 7 vowels not just of Albanian Language but of all kind humans voice that can produced as a vowel so Whos the mother of Languages😂
I'm sure you have met a lot of James, but have you ever met a single Jame?
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What aboht S though?
I'd like to buy a vowel
H cannot be a vowel because it's not voiced. Etymologically, vowel means vocal or voiced.
your definition of consonants is pretty bad, as mentioned in other comments. consonants require you to articulate, while vowels require you to change the shape of your mouth and have a free path for the flow of air. vowels are timbres, while consonants are noise
also, H is a basically a puff of air that does not require your voice to be produced, while a vowel is the sound the voice makes when passing freely through a particular mouth shape, that's why H isn't a vowel
Is it kind of ironic that a Brit is using the American English pronunciation guide? 😋
H is not a phonetic vowel. You shouldn't work with definitions you don't understand.
The video would have been much better if you engaged yourself with the Sonority Hierarchy. But you never really made the difference between sounds and letters even tho you introduce it at the beginning.
1:44 well, unless you're slavic, or caucasian (looking at you georgian!)