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23 hours ago · Fricatives. Attic Greek had only two fricative phonemes: the voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/ and the glottal fricative /h/. /h/ is often called the aspirate . Attic generally kept it, but some non-Attic dialects during the Classical period lost it . It mostly occurred at the beginning of words, because it was usually lost between vowels, except ...
- θέσις, τάσις, δασύς "putting, stretching, hairy"
- χώρα, κόρη, ἀγορά "country, girl, assembly"
- ἔφη, ἔπη, ἔβη "he said, words, he stepped"
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23 hours ago · A common realization of the word-initial /ʁ/ in the Lisbon accent is a voiced uvular fricative trill . In Brazil, /ʁ/ can be velar, uvular, or glottal and may be voiceless unless between voiced sounds; it is usually pronounced as a voiceless velar fricative [x], a voiceless glottal fricative [h] or voiceless uvular fricative [χ].
23 hours ago · Alternatively, affrication but not palatalization may be analyzed as phonemic for both voiceless and voiced coronal obstruents. When this analysis is adopted, [t͡ɕ] is analyzed as a palatalized allophone of an underlying affricate phoneme /t͡s/, just as [(d)ʑ] is analyzed as a palatalized allophone of /(d)z/. Voiceless bilabial fricative
23 hours ago · The voiceless plosives are aspirated. The dental, postalveolar and palato-velar plosives /t̪ d̪ tʲ dʲ kʲ/ affricate to [t̪͡θ d̪͡ð t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k͡xʲ] in many contexts. Manx has an optional process of lenition of plosives between vowels, where voiced plosives and voiceless fricatives become voiced fricatives and voiceless plosives ...
23 hours ago · The only obstruent without a counterpart is the voiceless fricative /x/, whose voiced counterpart /ɣ/ does not exist as a separate phoneme in Bulgarian. The sonorants / m / , / n / , / l / and / r / and the approximant / j / are always voiced.
23 hours ago · A speaker of Catalan (Majorcan dialect). Artur Mas, former president of Catalonia, discussing individual identity, collective identity and language.. Catalan (/ ˈ k æ t ə l ə n,-æ n / KAT-ə-lən, -lan or / ˌ k æ t ə ˈ l æ n / KAT-ə-LAN; autonym: català, Eastern Catalan:), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
23 hours ago · kart1248. The Kartvelian languages ( / kɑːrtˈvɛliən, - ˈviːl -/ kart-VEL-ee-ən, -VEEL-; Georgian: ქართველური ენები, romanized: kartveluri enebi; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languages [1]) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia.
