English words without vowels forms are reflected in orthography as contractions, such as "s", "ll", "d", and "n't". English words without vowels English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters , as well as , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters or because the words themselves are pronounced without vowel sounds. There are very few lexical words (that is, not counting interjections) without vowel letters. The longest such lexical
Avestan alphabet alphabet, with explicit characters for vowels, and allowed for phonetic disambiguation of allophones. The alphabet included many characters ("a", "i", "k", "t", "p", "b", "m", "n", "r", "s", "z", "š", "x") from cursive Pahlavi, while some ("ā", "γ") are characters that only exist in the Psalter Pahlavi variant (in cursive Pahlavi "γ" and "k" have the same symbol). Some of the vowels, such as "ə" appear to derive from Greek minuscules. Avestan "o" is a special form of Pahlavi "l" that exists only in Aramaic signs. Some letters (e.g. "ŋ́", "ṇ", "ẏ", "v"), are free inventions. Avestan script, like Pahlavi