Assertion: latin alphabet's letter | /r/CapableOf | represent sound
Facets:
value: in modern english orthography
type: OTHER
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: from persian
type: OTHER
value: from english
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Greeks chose letters representing sounds that did not exist in Greek to represent vowels.
text: Two letters representing one sound occur in several instances in Hungarian as well (where, for instance, cs stands for [tʃ], sz for [s],
text: ⟨qu⟩ is used in Catalan, French, Galician, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish orthographies for /k/ before the vowel letters e, i, where the letter c represents the sound /θ/
text: Because we have just 26 letters to represent those sounds, most letters stand for more than one sound.
text: Five letters stand for sounds written in English with two or more letters.
text: In modern English orthography, the letter ⟨a⟩ represents at least seven different vowel sounds:
text: The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters (letters with a dot added) to represent sounds from Persian and English.
text: Because we have just 26 letters to represent those sounds, most letters stand for more than one sound.
text: Two letters representing one sound occur in several instances in Hungarian as well (where, for instance, stands for [tʃ], for [s], for [ʒ], for [dʒ]).
text: Each letter represents one sound or a related sound (also called phoneme) used by the spoken language.
text: When used as a vowel in Vietnamese, the letter ⟨y⟩ represents the sound /i/; when it is a monophthong, it is functionally equivalent to the Vietnamese letter
text: In modern English orthography, the letter ⟨z⟩ usually represents the sound .
text: Cursive writing and lower case letters did not exist until the Middle Ages, and many letters did originally double duty, standing for more than one sound.