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")
Open back rounded vowel and in phonemic/broad phonetic transcription. According to him, the endless repetition of the symbol in publications on BrE has given this vowel a familiarity out of all proportion to its scarcity in the world’s languages. Open back rounded vowel The open back rounded vowel, or low back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically, it is a "near-open" or "near-low back rounded vowel". The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . It is called "turned script "a"", being a rotated version of "script (cursive) "a"", which is the