Vowel in Creek, the letter "V" stands for . There is not necessarily a direct one-to-one correspondence between the vowel sounds of a language and the vowel letters. Many languages that use a form of the Latin alphabet have more vowel sounds than can be represented by the standard set of five vowel letters. In English spelling, the five letters "A" "E" "I" "O" and "U" can represent a variety of vowel sounds, while the letter "Y" frequently represents vowels (as in e.g., "gym", "happy", or the diphthongs in "cry", "thyme"); "W" is used in representing some diphthongs (as in "cow")
Near-open central vowel last two symbols are equivalent to the more complex symbols and , respectively. In some languages (such as Bengali, Cantonese or Cypriot Greek) it is the only open vowel, in place of the more common open central unrounded vowel. The near-open central rounded vowel is an extremely rare sound, reported to occur as a phoneme only in the Sabiny language. If its roundedness needs to be specified, it can be done by adding the more rounded diacritic to the near-open central vowel symbol: , by combining the lowered diacritic with the open-mid central rounded vowel symbol: , or by combining