vocalic

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Esperanto has wisely adopted full, vocalic, syllabic endings for words.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John

In Goidelic, we find two mutations, the vocalic and the nasal.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

All the Germanic languages were familiar with vocalic change as possessed of functional significance.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

The vocalic mutation of initial g in Breton is c’h.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

So many unrelated functions were ultimately served by the vocalic change that we cannot believe that it was motivated by any one of them.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward