Vowel

consonant schwa letter i devocalize prevocalically monophthong prosodification raise synalepha assonant vocality monophthongal dissimilation geminatio vocalium velar pinch intervocalic vowel quantity breaking tonic vowellessness abjad rime vowelhood syllabic rounded vowelling crasis down tack tenseness spiritus asper laxed segment unaccented half long vowel open syllable polyphthong guna compensatorily lengthen aphesis niqqud nuxálk dialefe thematic vowel nonvocalic vowel point non rhotic o r dropping pure vocalic mater lectionis nucleus fatha synizesis nikud circumflex vowelly ubykh anaptyctic prevocalic back unvocalized oral cavity happy vowel vowels floating tone introflexive triphthong metaphony plene vocalise ecthlipsis lot cloth split echo vowel magic e chroneme disemvowel father bother merger alphabet kasra vowelish vowelled schwa primum cot caught merger postvocalic spiritus lenis diphthong binyan pararhyme univocal smooth breathing vocalically front wholly holy split syllabicity vocal abugida ehevi oxia ogonek vocalize vowelless vocalization point ach laut servile hirt's law gabelsberger vanish vocalism unround liaison syllable assonance stang's law grave accent denasalize open long vowel mark macron schwebeablaut coda broken plural yae vocal cords unvoweled textspeak assonate microprosody non prevocalic rounded vowel quantitative metathesis iotized nasal vowel elide exolabial long lengthening intervocalically tense vowel harakat umlaut floating univocalic overlong vowel vowelize diaeresis vocoid hiatus short laxing tashkil synaeresis double acute accent vowel reduction postvocalically begadkefat alphasyllabary sonorant rounding iotacism gunate lax vowel liquid l vocalization close semivowel strong diphthongoid a word organization