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Re:U.S. Surnames with No Vowels by timeon on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:16AM (#30818639)
> of these letters are pronounced with a vowel

maybe in English but not in Slavic languages (at least not in western Slavic).

"prst skrz krk" [ˈpr̩st] [ˈskr̩s] [ˈkr̩k]

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Re:U.S. Surnames with No Vowels by forehanddev on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:51AM (#30819031)
Western slavic languages still use a version of the 'Close unrounded central vowel' implicitly in pronounciation, even though it is not represented in writing. An example of this would be words in Romanian (which has a character representation for this sound) that were adopted from slavic languages. E.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/b%C3%A2rlog#Romanian
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Re:U.S. Surnames with No Vowels by ithkuil on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:56AM (#30819864)
But southern slavic languages lost that and we really just roll that r and pretend that it's just a vowel.
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