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Y or y is the twenty-fifth and penultimate letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. According to some authorities, it is the sixth (or seventh if including W ) vowel letter of the English alphabet. [ 1 ]
A spectrogram of [y]. The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is y , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y.
The consonant sounds represented by the letters W and Y in English (/w/ and /j/ as in went /wɛnt/ and yes /jɛs/) are referred to as semi-vowels (or glides) by linguists, however this is a description that applies to the sounds represented by the letters and not to the letters themselves.
This table lists the vowel letters of the International Phonetic Alphabet. IPA: Vowels; Front Central Back; Close: i. y. ... y y y Sound sample ...
There are two complementary definitions of vowel, one phonetic and the other phonological.. In the phonetic definition, a vowel is a sound, such as the English "ah" / ɑː / or "oh" / oʊ /, produced with an open vocal tract; it is median (the air escapes along the middle of the tongue), oral (at least some of the airflow must escape through the mouth), frictionless and continuant. [4]
On the other hand, [ʝ̞] is unspecified as far as rounding is concerned and it is assimilated to the labial vowel context: rounded with rounded vowels, e.g. ayuda [aˈʝ̞ʷuð̞a] ⓘ 'help', coyote [koˈʝ̞ʷote] ⓘ 'coyote', hoyuelo [oˈʝ̞ʷwelo] ⓘ 'dimple', etc., and unrounded with unrounded vowels: payaso [paˈʝ̞aso] ⓘ 'clown ...
For example, when representing a vowel, y represents the sound /ɪ/ in some words borrowed from Greek (reflecting an original upsilon), whereas the letter usually representing this sound in non-Greek words is the letter i .
/y/ sound may refer to: a close front rounded vowel, /y/. a near-close near-front rounded vowel, /ʏ/. a voiced palatal approximant consonant, /j/, written in some notations as /y/, usually when the author's and/or reader's language uses the letter y as a consonant, as is the case in English