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Consonant: Originally a sound or letter that had to be accompanied by a vowel. In phonetics term, most consonants are sounds in whose production the flow of air is obstructed at some point in the mouth, throat, or larynx, at least sufficiently to cause audible friction.

Vocal: Phonetically a vowel is a speech sound characterisized by voicing (the vibration of the larynx) and by absence of obstruction or audible friction in the vocal tract, allowing the breathe free passage. The quality of a vowel is chiefly determined by the position of the tongue and the lips. Vowel sounds divide into monophthongs, diphthongs and tripthongs.

Diphthong: A diphthong is a vowel whose quality changes perceptibly in one direction within a single syllable. Diphthongs are falling or rising according to which phase is more prominent. A distinction might be drawn in principle between a phonetic diphthong and a diphthong in phonology, which would consist of a secuence of two vowel phonemes.
 

- Kestrel: /’kɛstrɪl/

- Philology: Love of learning and literature; the branch of knoledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship.

- Crow: Forms: 1 crawe, 3-7 crowe, 4-crow, (6 krowe, croo, 6-7 croe); north. 3-6 crawe, 5-craw.