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17 hours ago · Examples: franţuzoaică (French woman in Romanian); cái chăn (blanket in Vietnamese); kŭt (pronunciation guide to the English word cut) cedilla (ç) : used in French and Portuguese to indicate that a c should be pronounced like an s, and in Turkish, to indicate a ch or sh sound.
17 hours ago · In Malagasy, it represents /ⁿdz/. Other letters and digraphs of the Latin alphabet used for spelling this sound are ń (in Polish ), ň (in Czech and Slovakian ), ñ (in Spanish ), nh (in Portuguese and Occitan ), gn (in Italian and French ), and ny (in Hungarian, among others).
17 hours ago · The script is still read by older monks. Northern Thai has six linguistic tones and Thai only five, making transcription into the Thai alphabet problematic. There is some resurgent interest in the script among younger people, but an added complication is that the modern spoken form, called Kam Muang, differs in pronunciation from the older form.
17 hours ago · Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ, [pʰáː sǎː láːw] ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language. Spoken by over 3 million people in Laos and 3.2 million in all countries, it serves as a vital ...
17 hours ago · Korean consonants have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial (voiced), and final (checked). The initial form is found at the beginning of phonological words. The medial form is found in voiced environments, intervocalically (immediately between vowels), and after a voiced consonant such as n or l.
17 hours ago · Many local variants of the Greek alphabet were employed in ancient Greece during the archaic and early classical periods, until around 400 BC, when they were replaced by the classical 24-letter alphabet that is the standard today. All forms of the Greek alphabet were originally based on the shared inventory of the 22 symbols of the Phoenician ...
17 hours ago · Chinese ( simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [i] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a ...
