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Print awareness refers to a child's understanding of the nature and uses of print.

A child's print awareness is closely associated with his or her word awareness or the ability to recognize words as distinct elements of oral and written communication.

Both skills are acquired in the child's natural environment.

A digraph or digram (from the dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.

Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to hear, identify and manipulate phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning.

Separating the spoken word "cat" into three distinct phonemes, and, requires phonemic awareness.

In phonetics, a vowel is a sound in spoken language, with two competing definitions.

In the more common phonetic definition, a vowel is a sound pronounced with an open vocal tract, so that the tongue does not touch the lips, teeth, or roof of the mouth, such as the English "ah" or "oh".

There is no build-up of air pressure at any point above the glottis.

This contrasts with consonants, such as the English "sh", which have a constriction or closure at some point along the vocal tract.

In the other, phonological definition, a vowel is defined as syllabic, the sound that forms the peak of a syllable.

A phonetically equivalent but non-syllabic sound is a semivowel.

Short U (Ў ў; italics: Ў ў) is a letter of the Cyrillic script.

The only Slavic language using this letter is the Belarusian Cyrillic script.