Sunday 2 June 2019

The English Alphabet and Vowels


Learning our English Alphabet

The English Alphabet consists of 26 letters - 

The English word alphabet comes to us, by way of Latin, from the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta
Around 1,000 BC, the Greeks adopted a shorter version of the Semitic alphabet, reassigning certain symbols to represent vowel sounds. 

There are more than 40 distinct sounds (or phonics) in English. Because we have just 
26 letters to represent those sounds, most letters stand for more than one sound. 
A vowel is a Letter of the Alphabet (a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y) that represents a speech sound created by the relatively free passage of breath through the larynx and oral cavity.



Our Vowels in the English Language




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