Difference between a Vowel and a Consonant Sound | क्या अंतर है एक Vowel और एक Consonant साउंड में | कैसे पहचानें?
We as English learners sometimes think what the difference between a vowel and a consonant sounds is. So, let us clarify this confusion and learn how to differentiate between the two. In English language, there are forty four sounds in all. They are further divided into vowel and consonant sounds. There are 20 vowel sounds and rest of them are consonants. This means there are 24 consonant sounds. Now the question arises how to find out if a sound is a vowel or a consonant one. Let us try and learn this distinction. It is absolutely simple. All the English vowel sounds have the quality of elongation. This means they can be elongated up to the most possible human breath. For example, let's take /i:/ or what we pronounce in hindi as /ई/, this can be easily elongated as /i:........./ but this quality of elongation is not present in a consonant sound. For example, /b/, this cannot be elongated /baaaaaaaaa/ or /beeeeeeee/ here you are actually not stretching a consonant soun...