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19 hours ago · A-speakers vary between and , and C-speakers are generally consistent in using : for these groups, the velar fricative is another possible allophone in fast speech. At the beginning of a word. All present-day standard Japanese speakers generally use the stop at the beginning of words.
19 hours ago · PIE is normally reconstructed with a complex system of 15 stop consonants, including an unusual three-way phonation distinction between voiceless, voiced and "voiced aspirated" (i.e. breathy voiced) stops, and a three-way distinction among velar consonants (k-type sounds) between "palatal" ḱ ǵ ǵh, "plain velar" k g gh and labiovelar kʷ gʷ ...
19 hours ago · Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people.Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea.
19 hours ago · The Shapsug (Black Sea) dialect of Adyghe contains a very uncommon sound: a voiceless bidental fricative , which corresponds to the voiceless velar fricative found in other varieties of Adyghe. This sound is only known to be used in the Black Sea dialect.
19 hours ago · Origin and development Etymology The word 'Pali' is used as a name for the language of the Theravada canon. The word seems to have its origins in commentarial traditions, wherein the Pāli (in the sense of the line of original text quoted) was distinguished from the commentary or vernacular translation that followed it in the manuscript. K. R. Norman suggests that its emergence was based on a ...
19 hours ago · Classification Main article: Nahuan languages Tree diagram of the relation between the Nahuan languages and the rest of the Uto-Aztecan language family, based on the internal classification of Nahuan given by Terrence Kaufman (2001) As a language label, the term Nahuatl encompasses a group of closely related languages or divergent dialects within the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language ...
19 hours ago · It is possible that in addition there was a glottal stop, ʔ, that was not consistently written. Coptic does not seem to have had a glottal stop at the beginning of orthographically vowel-initial words. It is possible that vowels written double were an attempt to indicate glottal stop, rather than a long vowel, in the middle of a word.
