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 is the most common type of the near-open central vowel, and is thus typically transcribed simply as , which is the convention used in this article. If its unroundedness needs to be specified, it can be done by adding the less rounded diacritic to the near-open central vowel symbol: , by combining the lowered diacritic with the open-mid central unrounded vowel symbol: , by combining the centralized diacritic with the near-open front unrounded vowel symbol: , or by combining the mid-centralized diacritic with either the open front unrounded vowel symbol: , or with the open back unrounded vowel: . The