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Meaning of vowellessness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.

uncountable

Examples

“...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...”
“The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster...”
“...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their 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, […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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