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
Urdu alphabet represent vowels. Urdu doesn't have standalone vowel letters. Short vowels ("a", "i", "u") are represented by optional diacritics ("zabar", "zer", "pesh") upon the preceding consonant or a placeholder consonant ("alif", "ain", or "hamzah") if the syllable begins with the vowel, and long vowels by consonants "alif", "ain", "ye", and "wa'o" as matres lectionis, with disambiguating diacritics, some of which are optional ("zabar", "zer", "pesh"), whereas some are not ("madd", "hamzah"). Urdu does not have short vowels at the end of words. This is a table of Urdu vowels: "Alif" is the first letter of the Urdu alphabet, and it is