Phonology. Ubykh has 84 phonemic consonants, a record high amongst languages without click consonants, but only 3 phonemic vowels.
Vowel Explanation
The Arabic Alphabet consists of 28 letters, only 3 of which are vowels ا (corresponds to A), و (corresponds to U or W), ي (Corresponds to I or Y).
Language with the fewest vowel sounds: Ubyx (2 vowels). The related language Abkhaz also has 2 vowels in some dialects. There are approximately 106,000 Abkhaz speakers living primarily in Georgia.
Nearly all languages have at least three phonemic vowels, usually /i/, /a/, /u/ as in Classical Arabic and Inuktitut, though Adyghe and many Sepik languages have a vertical vowel system of /ɨ/, /ə/, /a/.
The idea that languages without vowels exist is an enduring urban myth, the linguistic equivalent of the crocodile in the sewer or the poodle in the microwave. Those who have made a careful study of allegedly vowelless languages now maintain that there simply isn't any such thing.
What are the words without vowels? The words without vowels are why, hmm, hymn, xlnt, wynd, myths, thy, dry, cyst, etc.
The Ubykh language was ergative and polysynthetic, with a high degree of agglutination, with polypersonal verbal agreement and a very large number of distinct consonants but only two phonemically distinct vowels.
Very few languages distinguish three phonemic vowel lengths, such as Estonian, Luiseño, and Mixe.
Cambridge Dictionary
Fun Fact about English #4: The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm" ?.
Inuktitut is one of the principal Inuit languages of Canada.
Toki Pona is an isolating language with only 14 phonemes and an underlying feature of minimalism.
7 vowels [i, ɨ, u, e, ə, o, a] - Romanian, Komi, Udmurt, Hakka and Gan Chinese, Amami, Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Malayalam.
The commonest weak vowel is the schwa /ə/, which is the most frequent sound in English. Two crucial features must be remembered about the schwa: It only occurs in unstressed syllables. It can be spelled as almost any vowel letter or combination of vowel letters.
Že (ژ) used to represent the phoneme /ʒ/, is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on zayn (ز) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the four letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being چ ,پ and گ.
1) Similar to English, Hebrew vowels compose five basic sounds: A, E, I, O, U. 2) Different from English, vowels make no sound unless they are related to a consonant. To make the sounds A, E, I, O, U in Hebrew, there is a need to use the consonant Alef with each of those vowels.
1. أ,ب,ت,ث ج,ح,خ,د,ذ,ر,ز,س,ش,ص,ض,ط,ظ,ع,غ,ف,ق,ك,ل,م,ن,هـ,و,ي
R-colored vowels are exceedingly rare, occurring in less than one percent of all languages. However, they occur in two of the most widely spoken languages: North American English and Mandarin Chinese. In North American English, they are found in words such as dollar, butter, third, color, and nurse.
What is the Longest Word with no Vowels? Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of 'nymphlike'.
With five distinct kinds of clicks, multiple tones and strident vowels — vocalized with a quick choking sound — the Taa language, spoken by a few thousand people in Botswana and Namibia, is believed by most linguists to have the largest sound inventory of any tongue in the world.
Danish has nine vowel letters: a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø, å (the final three not existing in English). But on top of this, there are a significant number of vowel phonemes – about 22 in total (though some count as many as 40!), which is more than most languages in the world.
The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world's smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters, representing eleven phonemes.
Unlike Japanese and Chinese, which have thousands of characters you have to memorize, Korean has a simple alphabet called Hangul (prounced “Hahn” “Gul”). Hangul consists of just 24 letters—two fewer than the English alphabet.
Most English words have vowels, but there are a few that don't contain the letters A, E, I, O, or U. In fact, there are over 120 words without vowels in the English language.