pharyngeality altered the following vowel), while the two semi-consonants wau and yod became the corresponding high vowels, /u/ and /i/. (Some dialects of Greek...

pronunciation has been reduced to [bluː] by elision of the [j] in what is known as yod-dropping. Not all languages have this constraint; compare Spanish pliegue...

la situació del valencià - Política Lingüística - Generalitat Valenciana". Direcció General de Política Lingüística i Gestió del Multilingüisme (in Catalan)...

vuit, Pt. oito). Spanish diphthongizes except before yod, whereas Catalan only diphthongizes before yod. Voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ may be lenited to approximants...

velar stops preceding a front vowel and of consonant clusters involving yod or of the palatal approximant itself. The process involving gestural blending...

the ⟨i⟩ forms a clearer diphthong with the previous vowel (but a slight yod also in the next syllable is generally present), but in saiu /sɐˈiu/ ([sɐˈiw])...

with a dot above it represents [o], transliterated as ō or o, The letter Yōḏ with a dot beneath it represents [i], transliterated as ī or i, A tilde (~)...

contains /i/, /iː/ or /j/ (a voiced palatal approximant, sometimes called yod, the sound of English ⟨y⟩ in yes). It is a category of regressive metaphony...

consonant w, but can also represent the vowels o and u. Likewise, the letter Yōḏ (ܝ) represents the consonant y, but it also stands for the vowels i and e...

usually fricative, palatal consonant, sometimes compared to English /j/ (yod) as in yacht and spelled ⟨y⟩ in Spanish. As with other forms of allophony...