[Grammar] Vowel or Consonant?

[Dawood Usmani]

:shock:

 

[Soup]

It's a semi-vowel. See Linguistique UNIL - The notion of semi-vowel and Semivowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Dawood Usmani]

It's a semi-vowel. See Linguistique UNIL -*The notion of semi-vowel and Semivowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When does it function as a vowel and when as a consonant? Does it ever function as full (genuine) vowel?::-o

 

[mamlady]

hey guys w is a consonant latter u know ... the vowels are just a e i o u
and that's it ^^

 

[Soup]

When does it function as a vowel and when as a consonant? Does it ever function as full (genuine) vowel?::-o

You're merging spelling (orthography) with pronunciation (phonetics).

The sound represented by the letter <w> has vocalic properties when it sits in the nucleus of a word, the vowel position, and consonantal properties elsewhere. For example,

We <consonant>
down <vocalic; diphthong (part of the vowel)
queen <consonantal, [kw] is a consonant cluster; cf. keen)


Are there specific words that you would like explained?