French has many more vowels than Japanese.
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Vowels
/ˈvaʊəlz/
Synonyms for "vowels" (9 found)
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Noun(2 words)
syllabic vowelvocalic sound
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Noun(3 words)
vowel charactervowel lettervowel phonemes
Related words (4)
Noun(4 words)
vowel repertoirevowel soundvowel symbolvowel system
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6 entriesback vowelfront vowellong vowelnasal vowelshort voweltense vowel
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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.
Source: tatoeba (1599674)
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."
Source: tatoeba (1599679)
I cannot pronounce this word. It has no vowels.
Source: tatoeba (1686838)
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