Consonantal

A third type, called abugida or alphasyllabary, is one where vowels are shown by diacritics or modifications of consonantal base letters, as in Devanagari and other South Asian scripts.

Borderline cases Vowelled abjads Consonantal scripts (" abjads ") are normally written without indication of many vowels.

Canadian syllabics differ from other abugidas in that the vowel is indicated by rotation of the consonantal symbol, with each vowel having a consistent orientation.

Consonantal finals are indicated with a virama ( main), as in Burmese.

Consonants The following table lists the Eastern Armenian consonantal system.

Digraphs Syllables beginning with palatalized consonants are spelled with one of the seven consonantal kana from the i row followed by small ya, yu or yo.

It has only oral vowels and a fairly stable set of consonantal contrasts.

Nouns that end in -aius and -eius have vocatives that end in -aī or -eī even though the i is consonantal in the stem.

Origin collapsible André-Georges Haudricourt established that Vietnamese tone originated in earlier consonantal contrasts and suggested similar mechanisms for Chinese.

The ancient Nagari script for Sanskrit had two additional consonantal characters.

The Aramaic script was written in a consonantal form with a direction from right to left.

The consonantal system of the Canaanite language inspired alphabetical developments in subsequent languages.

The readily apparent semantic differences result from alternative strategies for interpreting the difficult verse and relate to differences in vowelization and punctuation of the consonantal text.

The regular consonantal sound changes from Proto-Celtic to Welsh, Cornish and Breton are summarised in the following table.

The source of the other consonantal letters is unknown.

Vowels Consonants ;Synharmonic sets ;Other consonantal signs A word separator ( ) is sometimes used.