How many vowels has your language?

[DomainEmpire.com]

Hi all,

In Italy we've an alphabet of 21 letters and 5 vowels (A-E-I-O-U) while these letters are not part of our official alphabet: J-K-W-X-Y even if, obviously, we know about them.

I need to know what other letters are considered as "vowels" in English and in other languages too, thanks for helping.

[themandave88]

A-E-I-O-U and sometimes Y are the only letters considered vowels in english
Hope that helps

[Vinternatt]

In Turkish: A-E-I-İ-O-Ö-U-Ü (8 vowels). Let's see which language has more vowels than Turkish, lol

[DomainEmpire.com]

Thanks guys, you helped a lot.
I can also confirm that English and French have both the same vowels, this was very important for me to know and to confirm.

[Bender]

Romanian : 8
A, E, I, O, U, Ă, Â, Î

[dominator]

The English and French languages do not have the same vowels. Only the same characters that are (can be Y) used as vowels.

[Vorty]

5 ( a-e-i-o-u ) in portuguese as well.

[draggar]

A, E, I, O, U and the bisexual Y.

[MobileDesigner]

A, E, I, O, U and the bisexual Y.

thats funny !

あいうえお (a i u e o) for Japanese words
アイウエオ (a i u e o) for Foreign words spelled in "katakana"
a i u e o for words from English-speaking countries using "romanji"

we also use　"ヴい" for the letter V by using the vowel "U" in Japanese but is not considered a vowel.....

[Stian]

In the Norwegian language, A, E, I, O, U, Y are all vowels.

[bricio]

5 ( a-e-i-o-u ) in portuguese as well.

é isso mesmo Vorty!!!

TRANSLATION: thats it Vorty!!!

[SpartaN]

Danish has 8 aswell

A, E, I, O, U, Æ, Ø, Å

[Stian]

Oh, I totally forgot about Æ, Ø and Å. Norwegian has those as well.

[Acro]

Modern Greek has 24 letters, of which 7 are vowels:

Α,Ε,Η,Ι,Ο,Υ,Ω

However, there are several diphthongs (vowel pairs):

Diphthong - Sound
ΑΙ = "Eh"
ΟΙ = "ee"
ΕΙ = "ee"
ΟΥ = "oo"
AY = "af/av"
EY = "ef/ev"

[DomainEmpire.com]

Thanks for all your feedback, really useful for my records and cultural knowledge of other languages.

[Jerlene]

The Hawaiian alphabet contains 12 letters: 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and 7 consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, w).

[DomainEmpire.com]

Only 12 letters in total ? This's really interesting