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54 relations: Advanced and retracted tongue root, Affricate consonant, Alveolar consonant, Back vowel, Bilabial trill, Butuo County, Caste, China, Chinese characters, Creaky voice, Dechang County, Fricative consonant, Front vowel, Fumin County, Gladstone Porteous, Glottal consonant, Jinyang County, Labial consonant, Labial–velar consonant, Lateral consonant, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Logogram, Lolo-Burmese languages, Loloish languages, Mandarin Chinese, Mianning County, Nasal consonant, Near-close vowel, Ningnan County, Nisoish languages, Nisu language, Nyisu language, Object–subject–verb, Open vowel, Open-mid vowel, Palatal consonant, Prestige (sociolinguistics), Puge County, Retroflex consonant, Roundedness, Sichuan, Stop consonant, Subject–object–verb, Syllabary, Syllabic consonant, Tone sandhi, Velar consonant, Vowel, Xichang, Xide County, ..., Yi people, Yi script, Yunnan, Zhaojue County. Expand index (4 more) »
Advanced and retracted tongue root
In phonetics, advanced tongue root and retracted tongue root, abbreviated ATR or RTR, are contrasting states of the root of the tongue during the pronunciation of vowels in some languages, especially in Western and Eastern Africa but also in Kazakh and Mongolian.
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Affricate consonant
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
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Alveolar consonant
Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.
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Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
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Bilabial trill
The bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Butuo County
Butuo County is a county of southern Sichuan Province, China.
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Caste
Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logograms primarily used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese.
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Creaky voice
In linguistics, creaky voice (sometimes called laryngealisation, pulse phonation, vocal fry, or glottal fry) is a special kind of phonation in which the arytenoid cartilages in the larynx are drawn together; as a result, the vocal folds are compressed rather tightly, becoming relatively slack and compact.
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Dechang County
Dechang (is a county of southern Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
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Fricative consonant
Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
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Front vowel
A front vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned relatively in front in the mouth without creating a constriction that would make it a consonant.
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Fumin County
Fumin County (Chinese: 富民县; pinyin: Fùmín Xiàn) is a county, under the jurisdiction of Kunming, Yunnan, China.
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Gladstone Porteous
Gladstone Charles Fletcher Porteous, Chinese name 张尔昌 Zhāng Ěrchāng (1874–1944) was an Australian missionary to China who served with the China Inland Mission from 1904 and became Superintendent of the work in East Yunnan.
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Glottal consonant
Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.
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Jinyang County
Jinyang County (Yi: ꏠꑸꑤ jit yiep xiep) is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
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Labial–velar consonant
Labial–velar consonants are doubly articulated at the velum and the lips, such as.
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Lateral consonant
A lateral is an l-like consonant in which the airstream proceeds along the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.
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Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Liangshan (Yi: ꆃꎭ Niep Sha, pronounced), officially the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture occupying much of the southern extremity of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China; its seat is Xichang.
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Logogram
In written language, a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase.
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Lolo-Burmese languages
The Lolo-Burmese languages (also Burmic languages) of Burma and Southern China form a coherent branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.
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Loloish languages
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi in China and occasionally Ngwi (Bradley 1997) or Nisoic (Lama 2012), are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in the Yunnan province of China.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Mianning County
Mianning County is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Near-close vowel
A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Ningnan County
Ningnan County is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Nisoish languages
The Nisoish languages, which contains both the Northern Loloish (Northern Ngwi) and Southeastern Loloish (Southeastern Ngwi) branches, are a branch of the Loloish languages proposed by Lama (2012).
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Nisu language
Nisu (Southern Yi) is a language cluster spoken by half a million Yi people of China.
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Nyisu language
Nyisu or Yellow Yi 黄彝 is a moribund Loloish language of Kunming, central Yunnan, China.
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Object–subject–verb
In linguistic typology, object–subject–verb (OSV) or object–agent–verb (OAV) is a classification of languages, based on whether the structure predominates in pragmatically-neutral expressions.
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Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
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Open-mid vowel
An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Palatal consonant
Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
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Prestige (sociolinguistics)
Prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.
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Puge County
Puge County (普格县 Pŭgé xiàn) is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Retroflex consonant
A retroflex consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the hard palate.
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Roundedness
In phonetics, vowel roundedness refers to the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel.
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Sichuan
Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Stop consonant
In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
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Subject–object–verb
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order.
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Syllabary
A syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) moras which make up words.
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Syllabic consonant
A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in the English words rhythm, button and bottle, or is the nucleus of a syllable, like the r sound in the American pronunciation of work.
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Tone sandhi
Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes change based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).
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Vowel
A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.
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Xichang
Xichang, formerly known as Jiandu and Jianchang, is a city in and the seat of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in the south of Sichuan Province, China.
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Xide County
Xide County (喜德县 Xĭdé xiàn) is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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Yi people
The Yi or Nuosuo people (historically known as Lolo) are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand.
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Yi script
The Yi script (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma) is an umbrella term for two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi Syllabary.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.
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Zhaojue County
Zhaojue County is a county of Sichuan Province, China.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuosu_language
