1. What is the Vietor Triangle?

Vietor Triangle is a Schematic presentation of vowel sounds. This was created by a German
Philologist and Phonetician, who was an advocate for the movement in modern language teaching.
It was created in 1850 to 1918. He wanted to create a guide to help teach people the right
pronunciation of the different vowels depending on the symbol it has or placement of the vowel
letter. He also publish many works in language and phonetics, and on teaching language.
This portrays how the jaw should move alongside the tongue in manipulation sound from
your voice box according to the vowel sound necessary when speaking. This is form of guide for
the different pronunciation of vowels depending on the symbol or the placement of the certain
vowel letter. The symbols contained in the Vietor Triangle are called ‘IPA’ or International
Phonetic Alphabet which is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin
alphabet (ex. ᶼ, ḉ, φ). Vowel systems of most languages are represented in vowel diagrams with
distribution of symbols on the letters or markings in the chart. Usually the vowel systems are
created in a triangular form just like the vietor triangle. The Vietor triangle does not only apply to
English but to many other languages as well including Latin and German.

This contains two axis: horizontal axis and vertical axis. Horizontal axis is from front to
back of the mouth (front, center, back), while vertical axis is from the floor to the roof of the mouth
(high, mid, low).

2. What are the vowel sounds and consonant sounds?

The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal". A vowel is one of
the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant. The sound comes from the
lungs, through the vocal cords, and is not blocked, so there is no friction.
There are 11 vowel sounds:
 /i/ as in police, here, feet, eat, and silly
 /ɪ/ as in it, sit, kick, liquid, and bitter
 /ɛ/ as in end, bet, less, never, and letter
 /æ/ as in at, apple, fat, back, and matter
 /u/ cool, tune, soup, shoe, and suit
 /ʊ/ cook, should, pudding, took and foot
 /ʌ/ as in bus, blood, come, nut, and up
 /ə/ as in kingdom, photography, philosophy, ketchup, and hundred
 /ɚ/ as in butter, collar, flavor, firm, and burst
 /ɔ/ as in all, fought, long, hot, and bot
 /ɑ/ as in father, walk, arm, heart, and wasp
Consonant is a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and
which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. It comes from the Latin word from
cōnsonāns (littera) "sounding-together (letter)".
There are 25 consonants sounds: