A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic metre and its stress patterns.

The syllable onset has no relationship to syllable weight; both heavy and light syllables can have no onset or an onset of one, two, or three consonants. In Latin a syllable that is heavy because it ends in a long vowel or diphthong is traditionally called syllaba nātūrā longa ('syllable long by nature'), and a syllable that is heavy because ...

The complete katakana script consists of 48 characters, not counting functional and diacritic marks: 5 nucleus vowels; 42 core or body (onset-nucleus) syllabograms, consisting of nine consonants in combination with each of the five vowels, of which three possible combinations (yi, ye, wu) are not canonical; 1 coda consonant; These are conceived as a 5×10 grid (gojūon, 五十 …

Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier. The pronunciation of Ancient Greek is not known from direct observation, but …

Onset. Italian allows up to three consonants in syllable-initial position, though there are limitations: CC /s/ + any voiceless stop or /f/. E.g. spavento ('fright') /z/ + any voiced stop, /v d͡ʒ m n l r/. E.g. ... The most-used syllable type changes as children age, and the distribution of syllables takes on increasingly Italian ...

音節（おんせつ）またはシラブル（英: syllable ）は、連続する言語音を区切る分節単位の一種である。 典型的には、1個の母音を中心に、その母音単独で、あるいはその母音の前後に1個または複数個の子音を伴って構成する音声（群）で、音声の聞こえの一種のまとまりをいう。

Thai, or Central Thai (historically Siamese; Thai: ภาษาไทย), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai people and a vast majority of Thai Chinese.It is the sole official language of Thailand.. Thai is the most spoken of over 60 languages of Thailand by both number of native and overall speakers. Over half of its vocabulary is derived from or ...

When a stressed vowel-initial Chinese syllable follows a consonant-final syllable, the consonant does not directly link with the vowel. Instead, the zero onset seems to intervene in between. 棉袄; mián'ǎo ("cotton jacket") becomes [mjɛnʔau], [mjɛnɣau]. However, in connected speech none of these output forms is natural.

In linguistics, Optimality Theory (frequently abbreviated OT) is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the optimal satisfaction of conflicting constraints. OT differs from other approaches to phonological analysis, such as autosegmental phonology and linear phonology (SPE), which typically use rules rather than constraints.

That is, it has letters for syllable onsets and rimes (kan = "k-an") rather than for consonants and vowels (kan = "k-a-n"). Bamum script – Bamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the gaps) ... (Onset-rime script) Linear Elamite – Elamite language; Paleohispanic semi-syllabaries – Paleo-Hispanic languages.