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13 relations: Article (grammar), Assimilation (phonology), Bambara language, Consonant, Downstep, Edoid languages, Lenition, Morpheme, Okpela language, Phoneme, Segment (linguistics), Tone (linguistics), Vowel.
Article (grammar)
An article (with the linguistic glossing abbreviation) is a word that is used with a noun (as a standalone word or a prefix or suffix) to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun, and in some languages extending to volume or numerical scope.
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Assimilation (phonology)
In phonology, assimilation is a common phonological process by which one sound becomes more like a nearby sound.
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Bambara language
The Bambara (Bamana) language, Bamanankan, is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 15 million people, natively by 5 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language users.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
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Downstep
Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first.
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Edoid languages
The Edoid languages are some two-to-three dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State.
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Lenition
In linguistics, lenition is a kind of sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.
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Okpela language
Okpela is a dialect cluster of Edoid languages in Nigeria.
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Phoneme
A phoneme is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language.
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Segment (linguistics)
In linguistics, a segment is "any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech".
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.
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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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