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19 hours ago · A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound.
- Pronunciation of English /R
R-labialization, which should not be confused with the...
- Fortis and Lenis
In linguistics, fortis and lenis (/ ˈ f ɔːr t ɪ s / FOR-tiss...
- Pronunciation of English /R
19 hours ago · The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified. In rhotic accents, the sound of the historical English rhotic consonant, /r/, is preserved in all pronunciation contexts. In non-rhotic accents, speakers no longer pronounce /r/ in postvocalic ...
19 hours ago · Fula alphabets. This article contains Adlam Unicode characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Adlam letters. The Fula language (Fula: Fulfulde, Pulaar, or Pular) is written primarily in the Latin script, [1] but in some areas is still written in an older Arabic script called the ...
19 hours ago · English, in various dialects, is the most widely spoken language of the United Kingdom, [13] but a number of regional and migrant languages are also spoken. Regional languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish. British Sign Language is also used.
19 hours ago · t. e. Video of a Welsh speaker. Welsh (Cymraeg [kəmˈraːiɡ] ⓘ or y Gymraeg [ə ɡəmˈraːiɡ]) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina).
19 hours ago · Adyghe (/ ˈædɪɡeɪ / or / ˌɑːdɪˈɡeɪ /; [ 3 ][ a ] also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians. [ 4 ] It is spoken mainly in Russia, as well as in Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Israel, where Circassians settled after the Circassian genocide (c.1864 –1870) by the Russian ...
19 hours ago · At the end of the 17th century, the city supported the Jacobites in the Williamite war in Ireland and was captured by the Williamites after a very short siege not long after the Battle of Aughrim in 1691. The great families of Galway were ruined. The city later suffered further under the Great Famine of 1845–1852.
