This makes it one of the most complex vowel systems of any language in the world. ![]() Other English accents will have a slightly different number of vowel sounds, but generally speaking, English has around 20 distinct vowel phonemes. In this article, we’ll use Standard Southern British English (SSBE) and General American English (GenAm) as our reference accents. There are many more distinct English vowel sounds (or phonemes) that can make the difference between otherwise similar words.Įxactly how many vowel phonemes English has depends on which variety of the language we’re talking about. ![]() Sometimes we count Y, too - so maybe six? While this might be true about the written language, it’s not the case for spoken English. English has five vowels, right? A, E, I, O and U.
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