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How many vowels and consonants does American English have?
I am asking for the number of vowels and consonants that American English possess not the number of letters used to write all the sounds.
5 Answers
- PopeJewishLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
15 vowels, 25 consonants, 9 dipthongs, 2 marginal sounds.
Obviously this changes slightly depending on dialect, but that's the general
- U Mad?Lv 68 years ago
Can any of you idiots read? Shansi didn't ask for the amount of vowels/consonants present in the alphabet, Shansi asked for the amount of vowels/consonants in everyday speech.
To the best of my knowledge, it's 16 vowels. That's at least what I learned in Linguistics, though I could be wrong.
- 8 years ago
There are 5-6 vowels and 20-21 consonants. (The variation is due to 'Y' being both a vowel and a consonant depending on the context)
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- 8 years ago
6 vowels and 20 consonants. The letter Y id considered to be both a cononant and vowel.
