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19 hours ago · If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. The phonology of Japanese features a phonemic inventory of five vowels ( /a, e, i, o, u/) and 15 or more consonants (depending on how certain sounds are analyzed). The phonotactics are relatively simple, allowing for few consonant clusters. Japanese phonology has been affected by ...
19 hours ago · Labial + /j/. The palatalization of labials is cross-linguistically rare and a variety of strategies for avoiding it are attested such as preservation of the cluster [Cj], gemination of the consonant before [j], metathesis of [j], and change of [j] to a palatal consonant. All of these outcomes are found in Romance.
19 hours ago · Ḵ is utilized for the voiceless velar fricative, [x], or the "kh" sound. Ṯ is used to denote the "th" sound or the voiceless dental fricative, [θ]. Unicode. The Syriac alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 1999 with the release of version 3.0. Additional letters for Suriyani Malayalam were added in June, 2017 with the ...
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19 hours ago · These stops include a labial stop: "b"; velar stop: "g"; and glottal stop: "h". Examples: B - zab (十 ten) G - hog (福 happiness) H - tih (鐵 iron) Relationship with Hokkien. Teochew and Hokkien are both Southern Min languages. Hokkien, which is spoken in southern Fujian, shares many phonetic similarities with Teochew, but they have low ...
19 hours ago · The velar nasal, /ŋ/, was written in a variety of ways, namely "n͠g", "ñg", "gñ" (as in Sagñay), and—after a vowel—at times "g̃". During the standardization of Tagalog in the early part of the 20th century, ng became used for the velar nasal /ŋ/, while prenasalized /ŋɡ/ came to be written ngg .
19 hours ago · Thai, [a] or Central Thai [b] (historically Siamese; [c] [d] Thai: ภาษาไทย ), is a Tai language of the Kra–Dai language family spoken by the Central Thai people, Mon in Central Thailand and the vast majority of Thai Chinese enclaves throughout the country. It is the sole official language of Thailand. [2] [3] Thai is the most ...
19 hours ago · For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States and in most circumstances is the de facto common language used in ...
