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-close front rounded vowel old diacritic for labialization, , will be used here as an "ad hoc" symbol for protruded front vowels. Another possible transcription is or (a near-close front vowel modified by endolabialization), but that could be misread as a diphthong. The close-mid front protruded vowel can be transcribed , or . For the close-mid front protruded vowel that is not usually transcribed with the symbol (or ), see close-mid front protruded vowel. Acoustically, this sound is "between" the more typical compressed near-close front vowel and the unrounded near-close front vowel . Near-close front rounded vowel The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high