A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words...

However, the distinction between consonant and vowel is not always clear cut: there are syllabic consonants and non-syllabic vowels in many of the world's...

and coda Nucleus (ν): A vowel or syllabic consonant, obligatory in most languages Coda (κ): A consonant or consonant cluster, optional in some languages...

the world. Syllabics are abugidas, where glyphs represent consonant-vowel pairs. They derive from the work of James Evans. Canadian syllabics are currently...

Diphthong Hiatus (linguistics) List of phonetics topics Mater lectionis Syllabic consonant Voiced labio-velar approximant Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996), p. 322...

system using symbols for consonant-vowel combinations (previously called syllabic and syllabic alphabet) Canadian Aboriginal syllabics, a family of abugidas...

transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a consonant cluster, consonant sequence or consonant compound, is a group of consonants which have no intervening vowel...

non-syllabic systems kanji and romaji), namely hiragana and katakana, which were developed around 700. Because Japanese uses mainly CV (consonant + vowel)...

in the suffix -ism. In modern terminology, this is described as a syllabic consonant (IPA /m̩/). M is the fourteenth most frequently used letter in the...

sī becoming /sź̩/. Syllabic consonants may also arise as a result of weak syllable reduction; see below. Syllabic nasal consonants are also heard in certain...