Syllabicity

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IPA mark ◌̩
IPA number 431
IPA character description vertical line below
Unicode U + 0329
HTML (dec.) & # 809;
X-SAMPA
Kirshenbaum <syl>
IPA mark ◌̯
IPA number 432
IPA character description inverted breve below
Unicode U + 032F
HTML (dec.) & # 815;
X-SAMPA _^
Kirshenbaum

In phonology, syllabicity (also syllabicity ) is the property of a sound to be able to form a syllable nucleus in a given language . These sounds are then also called syllabic and all other sounds as nonsyllabic . To be syllabic is therefore a property of the sound that it always has. A sound that forms a syllable core in a certain context is called a sonant . The context in which a sound can form a syllable nucleus depends largely on its sonority class.

Syllabic sounds are always the vowels and also in German, for example, the sounds [n] and [l].

In the International Phonetic Alphabet , the attribute is marked syllabic with ◌̩ ( Unicode COMBINING VERTICAL LINE BELOW U + 0329) and the attribute non- syllabic with ◌̯ (Unicode COMBINING INVERTED BREVE BELOW U + 032F).

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