It's common in many of the world's languages ... an unrounded partner of our high back rounded [u], [ɯ]. This vowel is found in Vietnamese, Tamil and an extremely Californian pronunciation ...

The Vietnamese alphabet has essentially the same alphabet as English. See figure one. There are 12 vowel letters existing in almost all Vietnamese dialects. See figure two. The pronunciation of these ...

A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y is not all you need to know about vowels. There's more to these workhorse members of our linguistics inventory than you might think. The most common vowel sound in ...