Vowellessness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Vowellessness is a noun meaning (linguistics) The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
Meaning
(linguistics) The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
Example Sentences
...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.
The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster.
...the devanagari is an alphabet, with the peculiarity that it omits writing one of the vowels, the commonest one, and has a symbol for vowellessness.
Vowellessness of the third radical letter of imperative in verb forms 1, 4, 13, and fourteen is the result of the jussiveness of imperative by lām, […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include voicelessness, languagelessness, umlautlessness, volumelessness, withoutness, vibrationlessness.
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