voweling
Supplying missing sounds
Voweling is adding vowel marks to text in languages like Hebrew or Arabic, where vowels are often omitted from standard writing.
These marks help readers with pronunciation, especially for religious texts, children's materials, or language learners: The Torah scroll requires careful voweling.
Marks altering letter pronunciation
- accentsRegional speech patterns
- umlautDouble-dot diacritical mark
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
circumflex · breve · diaeresis · pointing · harakat · matres lectionis · grapheme · glyph
Minimal distinctive sound unit
- diphthongComplex vowel gliding between positions
- monophthongSteady, ungliding vowel sound
- articulationClear vocal expression
- syllableUnit of pronunciation
stress · sonority · allophone · segmental · resonance · nasality · voice · roundedness
Producing sounds with voice
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- intoningUttering in measured pitch
- crooningSinging softly, sentimentally
- beltingForceful chest-voice singing
harmonizing · trilling · warbling · scatting · vibrato · melisma · solfege · vocalise
diacritics
Marks altering letter pronunciation
grave · circumflex · breve · diaeresis · pointing · harakat · matres lectionis · grapheme · glyph · script
phoneme
Minimal distinctive sound unit
- diphthongComplex vowel gliding between positions
- monophthongSteady, ungliding vowel sound
- articulationClear vocal expression
syllable · stress · sonority · allophone · segmental · resonance · nasality · voice · roundedness · height
vocalization
Producing sounds with voice
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- intoningUttering in measured pitch
- crooningSinging softly, sentimentally
belting · harmonizing · trilling · warbling · scatting · vibrato · melisma · solfege · vocalise · sustained
enunciation
Clarity of spoken words
syllabification · emphasis · modulation · phonation · sounding · voicing · spoken · oral · clarity · expression