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Countries that have "Y" as a Vowel
Can you guess all the countries in the world that use the letter "Y" as a vowel?
Hint: "Y" is almost always used as a vowel.
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Last updated: October 28, 2022
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| First submitted | October 28, 2022 |
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In Finnish ortography "y" is always a vowel, like in country name Syyria. Letters "i"and "j" represent almost similar sounds, but first of them works functionally in a syllable as a vowel and second as a consonant.
We write Yemen as Jemen, which shows that it is a consonant. But we write Kenia, not Kenja, so it is a vowel for us (and syllable structure is Ke-ni-a, not Ken-ja). Is in English "y" in Kenya a consonant?
As for Kenya, the couple dictionaries I checked listed the pronunciation as a consonant sound. ˈke-nyə. The y there is the same phonetic symbol you’d see at the beginning of “yes”. I think it might be a bit arbitrary; if the dictionary said it was a vowel sound or part of a diphthong I would have believed it!
In Finnish there is one pair of female names, Maria and Marja, which are (almost) impossible to differentiate in speech without asking how it is written, so this is arbitrary in Finnish. But we have minimal pairs like "iäinen" 'eternal' vs. "jäinen" 'icy', which are 100 % differentiated on the basis of different syllable structrure (i-äi-nen vs. jäi-nen).
Of course it'll always be Burma.