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Five vowels and unfamiliar consonants

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Five vowel sounds

Modern Greek has five vowel sounds: a, e, i, o and u. Several letters and teams can spell the same vowel.

Listen to three and box. In κουτί the team ου spells u.

τρία

three

κουτί

box

θth as in “thin”: air rubsγgh: air rubs, with a buzz

Listen to θέλω, I want, for voiceless th, and γάλα, milk, for the voiced back fricative. Neither is a stop: the air keeps rubbing through.

θέλω

I want

γάλα

milk

γγκ

γ rubs · γκ stops: g as in “goal”

γκολ, goal, has the stop g, written with the team γκ. These are previews, not a test.

γκολ

goal

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