Infantulus - Alphabet & Pronunciation - Vowels

From the first section: 

This section assumes the reconstructed classical pronunciation. You may substitute your own. Infantulus means a little infant, a little child, or one who cannot speak. It’s where our word” infant” comes from, as well as the French, “enfant terrible,” terrible or shocking child.

Here is the first question in the book. All the questions have been formatted in this simple way because of its aural or oral nature and to accomodate multiple ebook readers. There are about 735 questions: 

Q: What are the Latin vowels?

a, e, i, o, u, and y. The rest are consonants. 

This is merely a study and examination text, so it is shorter and simpler than a beginner or grammar book and has not the full discussions you will find there. For example, one thing that is not in the Latin Grammar Rite are the interesting tidbits about how our vowels are not exactly correct, at least according to Roman standards. Wheelock's Latin explains:

The Roman alphabet was like ours except that it lacked the letters j and w. Furthermore, the letter v originally stood for both the sound of the vowel u and the sound of the consonant w. Not till the second century of our era did the rounded u-form appear, but for convenience both v and u are employed in the Latin texts of most modern editions. The letter k was rarely used, and then only before a, in a very few words. The letters y and z were introduced toward the end of the Republic to be used in spelling words of Greek origin.

It's interesting to me that the German word for u is upsilon, which is also the Greek word for y, and that the sounds for German and Greek upsilon (Ψψ) are very similar to that for Latin y. Connectivity, I love it.