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I don't know about Welsh, but in Polish and Czech they are considered consonants as well, for example the Polish one letter words 'w' or 'z'. [[User:SilvioB|SilvioB]] 18:16, 29 June 2008 (EDT)
I don't know about Welsh, but in Polish and Czech they are considered consonants as well, for example the Polish one letter words 'w' or 'z'. [[User:SilvioB|SilvioB]] 18:16, 29 June 2008 (EDT)
:I don't know that about Polish/Czech (so maybe my edit was wrong), but felt it may have been confusing to say a word consists only of consonants in these languages, when it would not neccesarily appear so to Poles/Czechs/Welsh. [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 18:19, 29 June 2008 (EDT)
:I don't know that about Polish/Czech (so maybe my edit was wrong), but felt it may have been confusing to say a word consists only of consonants in these languages, when it would not neccesarily appear so to Poles/Czechs/Welsh. [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 18:19, 29 June 2008 (EDT)
:: Ok, so I looked around the web a bit and in the process found info to add to the [[Polish_language]] page. I'm pretty sure that 'w' and 'z' are consonants in those languages considering that they correspond in sound to the English 'v' and 'z' respectively. Examining a sample page [http://www.washington.polemb.net/ | Polish Embassy website], you do find 'z' and 'w' occuring as individual words, but also within other words surrounded by vowels, e.g. 'Częstochowie'. So I'm going to side with [[User:SilvioB|SilvioB]] and say that at least in Polish not every word has to have a vowel. [[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 19:40, 29 June 2008 (EDT)