Assertion: latin alphabet's letter | /r/CapableOf | represent vowel
Facets:
value: among the symbols of the ipa
type: OTHER
value: as in "myth"
type: LOCATION
value: as in koala
type: LOCATION
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The letter Y sometimes represents a consonant (as in "young") and sometimes a vowel (as in "myth").
text: Other letters that can serve as both vowels and consonants are either read as appropriate to the context in which they appear or are differentiated by diacritical marks derived from the Hebrew nikkud, commonly referred to as "nekudot"/"pintalach" (literally "points" as those marks are mostly point-like signs).
text: The letters also represent two vowels, as in koala /oʊ.ɑː/
text: These evolved into ideograms which, in turn, resolved themselves into phonetic symbols — first symbols representing syllables, then signs indicating consonants, and finally letters standing for both vowel and consonant phonemes.
text: The Romans first borrowed a form of upsilon – directly from the Greek alphabet, or from the Etruscan alphabet – as the single letter V, which represented both the vowel sound /u/ and the semivowel consonant sound /w/. (
text: In 'Phags-pa, a loop under a letter represented w after vowels, and Ledyard hypothesized that this became the loop at the bottom of ㅱ.
text: In Modern English, Y can represent the same vowel sounds as the letter I. The use of the letter Y to represent a vowel is more restricted in Modern English than it was in Middle and early Modern English.
text: The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels, although I and U represent consonants in words such as "onion" and "quail" respectively.
text: The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels; the remaining letters are considered consonant letters, since when not silent they generally represent consonants.
text: Among the symbols of the IPA, 107 letters represent consonants and vowels, 31 diacritics are used to modify these, and 19 additional signs indicate suprasegmental qualities such as length, tone, stress, and intonation.[note 3]
text: The other thing to bear in mind is that two of the letters which represent vowels can also represent consonants.