Vowels

French has many more vowels than Japanese.

The Anglophones always complained about the vowels /a e i o u/ in artificial languages. Those sounds are used because most other sounds other people cannot pronounce.

Lojban has six vowels, /a e i o u ə/ written <a e i o u y>. The last vowel is all you need for the "marshmallow effect."

I cannot pronounce this word. It has no vowels.

There may be a reduction of vowels.

I often confuse Spanish vowels.

There are many more vowels in French than in Japanese.

The French word 'oiseau', meaning 'bird', is the shortest one to contain five different vowels.

Many among us are not familiar with diphthongs but they are found in every phrase, sentence and paragraph. Question: How important are they in the Zamboangueño Chavacano language and what does "diphthong" mean? Answer: They are very important! Diphthongs are combinations of two vowels pronounced together in the same syllable, which produce a new distinct sound.

Classical Nahuatl had four vowels, /a/, /e/, /i/, and /o/, which could be either long or short.