It is in some languages, mine for example. Something between U and I. The english sound of Y is replaced by J, when placed before vowels, when placed after it's an I.... Uhm... I should prolly stop now...
Heh, just found out... Try saying "why" without using Y as a vowel...
Some Celtic words, like gwyn use y as a vowel. And what about the English word my? Since all words must have at least one vowel, the y is a vowel in that word.
You might want to add the letter "w" as well. This is used as a vowel in the words: ewe, ewing, sewer(pronounced as in "fewer"), and others.
Question: How would his program know if the "w" or "y" are to be pronounced as vowels? I ask because if the word is "say", the "y" would be silent. It's probably something obvious, but I can't seem to think of what the answer would be. :roll:
Yes, but havent we all grown up to learn that there are only 5 vowels, that are "AEIOU"? I never learnt anything different.
I learned 'AEIOU and sometimes Y'
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I got scared that the person was asking for voxels.
Quote:Yes, but havent we all grown up to learn that there are only 5 vowels, that are "AEIOU"? I never learnt anything different.
There are other languages than english
. I've grown up to learn that y is a vowel like any other, until I learned english, where it's a bit mixed up.
Quote:Question: How would his program know if the "w" or "y" are to be pronounced as vowels? I ask because if the word is "say", the "y" would be silent. It's probably something obvious, but I can't seem to think of what the answer would be.
I dunno about w, but isn't y only a [insert the opposite of vowel here] when it has a regular english vowel following it? And in "say", y is pronounced as "i"... well at least like "i" is in dk, like, straight "i" not "aij" as it's said in english...
"y" becomes vowel when it is pronounced like "i" in Spanish and other romance languages. English doesn't have a "straight" pronounciation. Vowels are pronounced in very different fashions, that's why it may be more difficult to categorize the "y".
In my language, there's only 1 pronounciation for "a", "e", "i", "o" and "u". In English, it depends on the consonants and vowels that are surrounding.
You are weird
Quote:In my language, there's only 1 pronounciation for "a", "e", "i", "o" and "u". In English, it depends on the consonants and vowels that are surrounding.
You are weird
Hehe, guess it's very related to Danish there, which have like 2-4 different ways to pronounce each vowel, depending on what consonants sorrounds it, as you said with english. But the sounds are still straight, not the "ai" for a and "eij" for i, "ow" for o aso...
Well, kind of the same happens here, but there are only slight changes. I mean, maybe the "a" in "gato" is slightly longer than the "a" in "amor", but nothing like "u" sounding like "a" or like "iu" and stuff like that.