the ‘long’ sound is like the letter name, and may be a long vowel or actually a diphthong. the...
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Vowel Phonemes in English and Bahasa Melayu
Supplementary materials for the course:
Reading in English for Young Learners in Malaysia for TELL2
‘Long’ and ‘Short’ Letter Sounds
The ‘long’ sound is like the letter name, and may be a long vowel or actually a diphthong.
The ‘short’ sound is NOT like the letter name.
English “Long ‘a’ ”, “Short ‘a’ ”
ant/æ/ a
baby tape snailtray
/eɪ/ a a-e ay ai
Short ‘a’:
Long ‘a’ diphthong Sounds like the letter name
Bahasa Melayu: ‘a’
a ar carbanana
/ɑ:/
Sounds like the other English letter ‘a’
English “Long ‘e’ ”, “Short ‘e’ ”
/e/ e eabed bread
e ea ee ey y/i:/
Forget-me-not
me
beach
tree key
pony“Long ‘e’ ” sounds like the letter name.
“Short ‘e’ ”
/e/ e eabed bread
English “Short ‘e’ ” is the same as one of the BM ‘e’ s.
Bahasa Melayu: ‘e’
There are two phonemes for ‘e’:
the sounds/ə/ and /e/
e ea ee ey y/i:/
Forget-me-not
me
beach
tree
key pony
English “Long ‘e’ ” is the same as the BM ‘i’
Bahasa Melayu: ‘i’
/ı/ i etin
rocket
i i-e igh
y/ɑı/
tiger kite
light
fly
English “Long ‘i’ ”, “Short ‘i’ ”
Long ‘i’: diphthong
Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘i’:
/ɒ/ o wafrog swan
o o-e ow ew
/əʊ/ oa
go
boat
note
snow
sew
English “Long ‘o’ ”, “Short ‘o’ ”
Long ‘o’:
diphthong
Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘o’:
Bahasa Melayu: ‘o’
Sounds like English “Short ‘o’ ”
/ɒ/ o wafrog swan
oo ew ue/u:/ moon
screw
glue
u/ʌ/ obus glove
English “Long ‘u’ ”, “Short ‘u’ ”
Long ‘u’: diphthong Sounds like the letter name
Short ‘u’:
Bahasa Melayu: ‘u’
oo/ʊ/ ubook bull
In English, it’s another kind of “Short ‘u’ ”.
another English Vowel Sound
or au aw oor/ɔ:/ a
fork ball sauce
saw door
It’s like a lengthened “Short ‘o’ ”
(other) English Diphthongs (1)
/eə/ air arehair
square
ear eerear deer
/ɪə/
/ʊə/ oor
moor
our
tourist
ure
cure
ur
jury
/ɑʊ/ ow
oucow
house
/ɔı/ oy
oitoy coin
(other) English Diphthongs (2)
er ir or ur/ɜ:/
fern
shirt
worm
fur
The Long ‘er’This is similar to the second ‘e’ phoneme in BM.
In English it is found in stressed syllables and words with one syllable.
The Schwa
/ə/
er ar or ure
teacher
collar doctor measure
a e i o u
zebra
garden
fossil
lion
circus
In an unstressed syllable the vowel sound is often replaced by ‘schwa’. It is shorter than the similar BM sound.