What languages use schwa?

It is almost always unstressed, but Albanian, Bulgarian, Slovene and Afrikaans are some of the languages that allow stressed schwas. In most dialects of Russian unstressed ⟨a⟩ and ⟨o⟩ reduce to either [ɐ] or schwa. In dialects of Kashubian a schwa occurs in place of the Old Polish short consonants ⟨u⟩, ⟨i⟩, ⟨y⟩.

Which language has the most diphthongs?

Top 15 languages for total number of phonemes including diphthongs

• Estonian : 75.
• Welsh : 62.
• Belarusian : 58.
• Russian : 55.
• Danish, Finnish : 52.
• Norwegian : 50.
• English, Icelandic, Irish Gaelic, Latvian, Romanian : 49.
• Dutch, German, Ukrainian : 48.

Which language has most number of sounds?

The language ! Xóõ (also known as Ta’a; formerly called “southern Khoisan”) is spoken by a small community of around 3,000 semi-nomadic people in southern Botswana and eastern Namibia. It has a total of 161 segments (sounds), including 130 consonants, 28 vowels and three different tones.

How many diphthongs does English have?

Gimson there are 8 English diphthong sounds. Feel free to choose your preferred set! Normally an English diphthong has a long sound, unless of course it doesn’t, as in “wood” or “said“. English diphthongs, like many other parts of English need to be memorised.

Do other languages have more vowels?

Every language has vowels, but languages vary in the number of vowel sounds they use. Castilian Spanish and Japanese, meanwhile, are generally considered to have five vowel sounds. Languages also vary in the number of consonants they have. English has at least 24 consonant sounds.

Does English have more sounds than other languages?

English has more phonemes than many languages, with around 44, depending on which variety of English you speak. It has an unusually large set of vowel sounds—there are around 11.