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The Y is a consonant for its general pronunciation, which is when Y starts a word, the Y starts a syllable or the following letter of Y is a vowel. If the Y ends a word, it's somewhere inside a syllable or inside a syllable intervention, especially without a surrounding vowel in one syllable like "byte", or if the following letter of Y is a consonant, then that's when Y becomes a vowel. If the following letter is a consonant, the reason why Y would become a vowel is because Y can't be a consonant blend. However, Y is not a vowel for its general pronunciation nor in the phonetic alphabets.

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