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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by checkyoursudo on Thursday November 21, 2019 @06:50AM (#21593221)
I suspect in the sense that 'w' acts like a long vowel or a diphthong in many cases in English when it is used in the middle or at the of a word.

E.g., (spelling vs pronunciation) 'town' vs 'toun', 'own' vs 'oan', 'bow' vs 'bo' or 'bau', etc.

It definitely seems like the most vowel-like consonant after 'y'.

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Re:The Swedish phoneme notorious for having a dedicated IPA ... by OJFord on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:01AM (#21593589)
'Semi-vowel' seems to be the word, for 'y' too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semivowel

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