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")
Thematic vowel these languages as well. While Old English still contrasted "vowel stems" (thematic) and "consonant stems" (athematic), this distinction is no longer a meaningful one in Modern English, and other languages whose morphology has been drastically simplified by analogy. In the term "thematic vowel", "theme" refers to the stem of a word. For example, in the Ancient Greek verb ("témnō") 'cut', "tem-" is the root, and "temn-" is the stem or theme for the present tense. Hence, "thematic vowel" loosely means "stem vowel". Thematic vowel In Indo-European studies, a thematic vowel or theme vowel is the vowel or from ablaut placed