Afghanistan | Albania | Algeria | Argentina | Armenia | Austria | Bolivia | Bulgaria | Cambodia | Cameroon | Cape Verde | Colombia | Costa Rica | Croatia | Czech Republic | Djibouti | Dominica | East Timor | Ecuador | El Salvador | Eritrea | Estonia | Eswatini | Georgia | Guinea | Ivory Coast | Jamaica | Kiribati | Liberia | Luxembourg | Madagascar | Malaysia | Marshall Islands | Mongolia | Montenegro | Namibia | New Zealand | Nigeria | North Korea | Paraguay | Philippines | Romania | San Marino | Singapore | Slovakia | Slovenia | Somalia | South Sudan | Suriname | Tajikistan | Tanzania | Tunisia | Turkmenistan | Ukraine | Uruguay | Uzbekistan | Vanuatu | Vatican City
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Australia | Azerbaijan | Burkina Faso | Ethiopia | Guatemala | Indonesia | Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Mauritius | Mozambique | Nicaragua | Saint Lucia | Solomon Islands | South Africa | South Korea | United Kingdom | United States | Venezuela
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Mauritania | North Macedonia | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Sierra Leone
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Dominican Republic | Guinea-Bissau | Republic of the Congo | São Tomé and Príncipe | Saudi Arabia | Trinidad and Tobago
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Antigua and Barbuda | Central African Republic | Papua New Guinea
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | United Arab Emirates
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Equatorial Guinea | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Nay nay on Cyprus, Egypt, and Kyrgyzstan. They have 2, 2, and 3 vowels, respectively. Y is a vowel in those names. (Si-prus; Ee-jipt; Keer-guh-stan) Chad stands alone with only 1.
Hungary, Italy, Libya, Myanmar, and Syria have three vowels. The Y is a vowel. (Hun-gar-ee; Ih-tal-ee; Lib-ee-uh; Mee-an-mar; See-ree-uh)
Ivory Coast and Vatican City have five vowels; their Ys are vowels. (I-ver-ee Coast; Va-ti-kan Sih-tee)
Is Myanmar really pronounced with three sylables in english? In my language (Slovak) and other slavic languages the root word Myanmar/Mjanmar is pronounced with two sylables, even though the actual word in Slovak has three sylables (Mjanmarsko)
This is true. A vowel is dictated by whether it forms part of the vowel sound of a word. Does the word “my” have no vowel? Of course it does! “y” can generally be considered a vowel unless it’s makes a yuh sound, like in “yak”.
The "-ay" at the end of those words is a diphthong. It is the blend of two vowel sounds together, forming only one syllable. Both "a" and "y" in those countries are acting as vowels because they are both part of the diphthong (trouble hearing the diphthong? Hold the very very end of your sound at the end of saying way. You're saying something akin to "eeee", which is one of the diphthong sounds "y" makes).
I totally had to stop the clock even to come close to getting all of these, and even then I didn't. Also, I think Sao Tome may be in the wrong category (8 vowels, not 7).
Hungary, Italy, Libya, Myanmar, and Syria have three vowels. The Y is a vowel. (Hun-gar-ee; Ih-tal-ee; Lib-ee-uh; Mee-an-mar; See-ree-uh)
Ivory Coast and Vatican City have five vowels; their Ys are vowels. (I-ver-ee Coast; Va-ti-kan Sih-tee)