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Vowel length

In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived or actual duration of a vowel sound when pronounced. Vowels perceived as shorter are often called short vowels and those perceived as longer called long vowels.

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Entity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal)
ː
IPA number
503
Unicode (hex)
U+02D0

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Phonemic vowel length

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Vowel length

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related to Other writing systems · 26
Vowel length → Alif, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Aramaic, Classic Maya, Daikon, Devanagari, For, Hebrew, Hence, However, If, In, In South-Asian, Japan, Japanese, Korean Hangul, Latin, Modern Arabic, Most
related to Phonemic vowel length · 14
Vowel length → Ancient Greek, Arabic, As, Biblical Hebrew, Dravidian, Finno-Ugric, Hungarian, In Latin, Japanese, Latin, Other, Scottish Gaelic, Some, There
related to Related features · 12
Vowel length → Alemannic German, Among, Classical Latin, Czech, Egyptian Arabic, Finnish, For, French, In, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Stress
related to Origin · 10
Vowel length → Another, English, However, In Australian English, Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European, Stang's, Szemerényi's, Vowel, When
is a · 2
Vowel length → perceived or actual duration of a vowel sound when pronounced, shift of a vowel of a formerly-different quality to become the short counterpart of a vowel pair
Entity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal) · 1
Vowel length → ː
IPA number · 1
Vowel length → 503
Unicode (hex) · 1
Vowel length → U+02D0

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vowel vowels long length english short languages phonemic used example also two estonian allophonic consonant distinction japanese written however may

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Vowel lengthEntity .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}(decimal)ː1.00infobox
Vowel lengthIPA number5031.00infobox
Vowel lengthUnicode (hex)U+02D01.00infobox
Vowel lengthis aperceived or actual duration of a vowel sound when pronounced0.90text
Vowel lengthis ashift of a vowel of a formerly-different quality to become the short counterpart of a vowel pair0.90text
the phonetic characteristics of the sounds around itinstance ofthe amount of time a vowel is uttered can change based on factors0.80text
Czechinstance ofIn languages0.80text
Finnishinstance ofIn languages0.80text
some Irish dialectsinstance ofIn languages0.80text
Classical Latininstance ofIn languages0.80text
vowel length is distinctive also in unstressed syllables.In some languagesinstance ofIn languages0.80text
vowel length is sometimes better analyzed as a sequence of two identical vowelsinstance ofIn languages0.80text

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