Semivowel

Synonyms for "semivowel" (81 found)

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Closest matches (17)

Noun(1 words)

alveolar articulation aspiration assimilated assimilation back bilabial broad central cerebral check close consonant dental diphthong dorsal

Strong matches (24)

explosive flat front glide glossal glottal guttural hard heavy high labial lateral lax light lingual liquid low mid modification mute

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muted narrow nasal nasalized

Related words (40)

occlusive open palatal peak pharyngeal phone phoneme phonemic phonetic phonic pitched retroflex rounded semiconsonant soft sonant sonority stop stopped stressed

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strong surd syllabic syllable tense thick throaty tonal tonic twangy unaccented unstressed vocable voice voiced voiceless vowel weak wide

Noun(1 words)

semiconsonant

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

phone sound speech sound

Synonyms

2 entries

glide semiconsonant

Related terms

2 entries

consonant vocoid

derived from

1 entries

vowel

is a

1 entries

phone

related to

4 entries

consonant vowel w y

Translations

44 translations across 33 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἡμίφωνον noun (sound in speech)

Arabic

1 entries

أَشْبَاهُ العِلَلِ noun (sound in speech)

Armenian

1 entries

կիսաձայն noun (sound in speech)

Asturian

3 entries

nidia noun (sound in speech)
semiconsonante noun (sound in speech)
semivocal noun (sound in speech)

Breton

2 entries

damgensonenn noun (sound in speech)
damvogalenn noun (sound in speech)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

半元音 noun (sound in speech)
半母音 noun (sound in speech)

Czech

1 entries

polosamohláska noun (sound in speech)

Danish

1 entries

halvvokal noun (sound in speech)

Dutch

2 entries

halfklinker noun (sound in speech)
halfvocaal noun (sound in speech)

Esperanto

1 entries

duonvokalo noun (sound in speech)

Finnish

1 entries

puolivokaali noun (sound in speech)

French

2 entries

semi-consonne noun (sound in speech)
semi-voyelle noun (sound in speech)

German

2 entries

Halbvokal noun (sound in speech)
Semivokal noun (sound in speech)

Greek

1 entries

ημίφωνο noun (sound in speech)

Hebrew

1 entries

חצי־תנועה noun (sound in speech)

Hungarian

1 entries

félhangzó noun (sound in speech)

Italian

2 entries

semiconsonante noun (sound in speech)
semivocale noun (sound in speech)

Japanese

1 entries

半母音 noun (sound in speech)

Korean

1 entries

반모음 noun (sound in speech)

Latin

1 entries

semivocalis noun (sound in speech)

Macedonian

1 entries

полусамо́гласка noun (sound in speech)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

halvvokal noun (sound in speech)

Polish

1 entries

spółgłoska półotwarta noun (sound in speech)

Portuguese

1 entries

semivogal noun (sound in speech)

Romanian

1 entries

semivocală noun (sound in speech)

Russian

1 entries

полугла́сный noun (sound in speech)

Spanish

3 entries

semiconsonante noun (sound in speech)
semivocal noun (sound in speech)
vocoide noun (sound in speech)

Swedish

1 entries

halvvokal noun (sound in speech)

Tagalog

1 entries

malapatinig noun (sound in speech)

Turkish

1 entries

yarı-ünlü noun (sound in speech)

Vietnamese

1 entries

bán nguyên âm noun (sound in speech)

Welsh

2 entries

lled-lafariad noun (sound in speech)
llithrolyn noun (sound in speech)

West-Frisian

1 entries

healfokaal noun (sound in speech)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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