vowellessness

English

Etymology

vowelless +‎ -ness

Noun

vowellessness (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
   • 1972, George Leonard Trager., Language and Languages, page 211:

     ...the devanagari is an alphabet, with the peculiarity that it omits writing one of the vowels, the commonest one, and has a symbol for vowellessness...

   • 1992, Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima, Michael Noonan., The Linguistics of Literacy: 17th Annual Linguistics Symposium : Papers, page 92:

     The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster...

   • 2001, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Masʻūd, Joyce Åkesson, Arabic Morphology and Phonology, page 224:

     ...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.