English words without vowels 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 word is "tsktsks", pronounced . The mathematical expression "nth" , as in "delighted to
Kaddare alphabet resemblance to Brahmi. As there are no dedicated characters for long vowels, a vowel is made long by simply writing it twice. Kaddare alphabet The Kaddare alphabet is a writing script created to transcribe Somali, an Afro-Asiatic language. The orthography was invented in 1952 by Sheikh Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare of the Abgaal Hawiye clan. A phonetically robust writing system, the technical commissions that appraised the Kaddare script concurred that it was a very accurate orthography for transcribing Somali. The Kaddare script uses both upper and lower case letters, with the lower case represented in cursive. Many characters are transcribed