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194 relations: Adyghe language, Albanian alphabet, Albanian language, Aleut language, Andalusian Spanish, Approximant, Arabic, Arabic alphabet, Arabic phonology, Aramaic, Armenian alphabet, Armenian language, Asturian language, Avar language, Azerbaijani language, Basque language, Belgian French, Bengali alphabet, Bengali language, Berber languages, Brazilian Portuguese, Brescia, Cantabrian language, Cantonese, Cantonese phonology, Castúo, Catalan language, Catalan orthography, Catalan phonology, Chechen language, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Consonant, Croatian language, Cypriot Greek, Cyrillic script, Danish and Norwegian alphabet, Danish language, Danish phonology, Devanagari, Eastern Armenian, Eastern Lombard dialects, English language, English orthography, English phonology, Esperanto orthography, Esperanto phonology, Estonian language, Estonian orthography, ... Expand index (144 more) »
- Approximant-fricative consonants
- Glottal consonants
- Voiceless approximants
Adyghe language
Adyghe (or; also known as West Circassian) is a Northwest Caucasian language spoken by the western subgroups of Circassians.
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Albanian alphabet
The Albanian alphabet (alfabeti shqip) is a variant of the Latin alphabet used to write the Albanian language.
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Albanian language
Albanian (endonym: shqip, gjuha shqipe, or arbërisht) is an Indo-European language and the only surviving representative of the Albanoid branch, which belongs to the Paleo-Balkan group.
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Aleut language
Aleut or Unangam Tunuu is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut Alaxsxa, the origin of the state name Alaska).
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Andalusian Spanish
The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (andaluz) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar.
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Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Arabic alphabet
The Arabic alphabet (الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة), or Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language.
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Arabic phonology
While many languages have numerous dialects that differ in phonology, contemporary spoken Arabic is more properly described as a continuum of varieties.
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Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
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Armenian alphabet
The Armenian alphabet (Հայոց գրեր, Hayocʼ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayocʼ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages.
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Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family.
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Asturian language
Asturian (asturianu),Art.
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Avar language
Avar (магӏарул мацӏ,, "language of the mountains" or авар мацӏ,, "Avar language"), also known as Avaric, is a Northeast Caucasian language of the Avar–Andic subgroup that is spoken by Avars, primarily in Dagestan.
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Azerbaijani language
Azerbaijani or Azeri, also referred to as Azeri Turkic or Azeri Turkish, is a Turkic language from the Oghuz sub-branch.
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Basque language
Basque (euskara) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
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Belgian French
Belgian French (français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais).
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Bengali alphabet
The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (Bangla bôrṇômala, বেঙ্গলি ময়েক|Bengali mayek) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and the most influential form of Portuguese worldwide.
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Brescia
Brescia (locally; Brèsa,; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy.
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Cantabrian language
Cantabrian (cántabru, in Cantabrian) is a vernacular Romance linguistic variety, most often classified as part of the Asturleonese linguistic group.
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Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta, with over 82.4 million native speakers.
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Cantonese phonology
Standard Cantonese pronunciation originates from Guangzhou, also known as Canton, the capital of Guangdong Province.
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Castúo
Castúo is the generic name for the dialects of Spanish spoken in the autonomous community of Extremadura, in Spain.
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Catalan language
Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.
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Catalan orthography
The Catalan and Valencian orthographies encompass the spelling and punctuation of standard Catalan (set by the IEC) and Valencian (set by the AVL).
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Catalan phonology
The phonology of Catalan, a Romance language, has a certain degree of dialectal variation.
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Chechen language
Chechen (Нохчийн мотт, Noxçiyn mott) is a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by approximately 1.8 million people, mostly in the Chechen Republic and by members of the Chechen diaspora throughout Russia and the rest of Europe, Jordan, Austria, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Central Asia (mainly Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) and Georgia.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL) is a digital library that provides free electronic copies of Christian scripture and literature texts.
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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, except for the h, which is pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
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Croatian language
Croatian (hrvatski) is the standardised variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by Croats.
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Cypriot Greek
Cypriot Greek (κυπριακή ελληνική or κυπριακά) is the variety of Modern Greek that is spoken by the majority of the Cypriot populace and Greek Cypriot diaspora.
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Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
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Danish and Norwegian alphabet
The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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Danish phonology
The phonology of Danish is similar to that of the other closely related Scandinavian languages, Swedish and Norwegian, but it also has distinct features setting it apart.
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Devanagari
Devanagari (देवनागरी) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Eastern Armenian
Eastern Armenian is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Western Armenian.
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Eastern Lombard dialects
Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English orthography
English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning.
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English phonology
English phonology is the system of speech sounds used in spoken English.
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Esperanto orthography
Esperanto is written in a Latin-script alphabet of twenty-eight letters, with upper and lower case.
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Esperanto phonology
Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language designed to have a simple phonology.
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Estonian language
Estonian (eesti keel) is a Finnic language of the Uralic family.
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Estonian orthography
Estonian orthography is the system used for writing the Estonian language and is based on the Latin alphabet.
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Estonian phonology
This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Estonian language.
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Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet
The Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet for Disordered Speech, commonly abbreviated extIPA, are a set of letters and diacritics devised by the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association to augment the International Phonetic Alphabet for the phonetic transcription of disordered speech.
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Faroese language
Faroese is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 69,000 Faroe Islanders, of which 21,000 reside mainly in Denmark and elsewhere.
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Filipino orthography
Filipino orthography (Ortograpiyang Filipino) specifies the correct use of the writing system of the Filipino language, the national and co-official language of the Philippines.
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Finnish language
Finnish (endonym: suomi or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland.
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Finnish orthography
Finnish orthography is based on the Latin script, and uses an alphabet derived from the Swedish alphabet, officially comprising twenty-nine letters but also including two additional letters found in some loanwords.
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Finnish phonology
Unless otherwise noted, statements in this article refer to Standard Finnish, which is based on the dialect spoken in the former Häme Province in central south Finland.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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French orthography
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.
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French phonology
French phonology is the sound system of French.
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Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
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Gaj's Latin alphabet
Gaj's Latin alphabet (Гајева латиница), also known as abeceda (абецеда) or gajica (гајица), is the form of the Latin script used for writing Serbo-Croatian and all of its standard varieties: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian.
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Galician language
Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.
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Galician phonology
This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Galician language.
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Georgian language
Georgian (ქართული ენა) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language; it serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages.
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Georgian scripts
The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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German orthography
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the German language, which is largely phonemic.
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Gheada
Gheada is a term in Galician to describe the debuccalisation of the voiced velar stop to a, usually voiceless, back fricative, most often a voiceless pharyngeal fricative.
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Glottal consonant
Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation. Voiceless glottal fricative and Glottal consonant are glottal consonants.
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Greek alphabet
The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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H-dropping
H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound",.
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Hawaiian alphabet
The Hawaiian alphabet (in ka pīʻāpā Hawaiʻi) is an alphabet used to write Hawaiian.
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Hawaiian language
Hawaiian (Ōlelo Hawaii) is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiokinai, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
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Hawaiian phonology
The phonological system of the Hawaiian language is based on documentation from those who developed the Hawaiian alphabet during the 1820s as well as scholarly research conducted by lexicographers and linguists from 1949 to present.
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Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet (אָלֶף־בֵּית עִבְרִי), known variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is traditionally an abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language and other Jewish languages, most notably Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Persian.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hindustani phonology
Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively.
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Hmong language
Hmong or Mong (RPA:, Nyiakeng Puachue:, Pahawh) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos.
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Honda
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and battery-powered equipment, founded in October 1946 by Soichiro Honda and headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language of the proposed Ugric branch spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries.
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Hungarian orthography
Hungarian orthography (lit) consists of rules defining the standard written form of the Hungarian language.
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Hungarian phonology
The phonology of the Hungarian language is notable for its process of vowel harmony, the frequent occurrence of geminate consonants and the presence of otherwise uncommon palatal stops.
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International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
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Irish orthography
Irish orthography is the set of conventions used to write Irish.
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Irish phonology
Irish phonology varies from dialect to dialect; there is no standard pronunciation of Irish.
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Italian language
Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
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Italian orthography
Italian orthography (the conventions used in writing Italian) uses the Latin alphabet to write the Italian language.
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Italian phonology
The phonology of Italian describes the sound system—the phonology and phonetics—of Standard Italian and its geographical variants.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese phonology
Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language.
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Javanese language
Javanese (basa Jawa, Javanese script: ꦧꦱꦗꦮ, Pegon: باسا جاوا, IPA) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia.
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Javanese script
The Javanese script (natively known as Aksara Jawa, Hanacaraka, Carakan, and Dentawyanjana) is one of Indonesia's traditional scripts developed on the island of Java.
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Kabardian language
Kabardian, also known as, is a Northwest Caucasian language, that is considered to be the east dialect of Adyghe language.
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Kana
are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.
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Kazakh language
Kazakh or Qazaq is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs.
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Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
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Khmer script
Khmer script (អក្សរខ្មែរ)Huffman, Franklin.
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Lakota language
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes.
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Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
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Lao language
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ), 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.
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Lao script
Lao script or Akson Lao (ອັກສອນລາວ) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Lenition
In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous.
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Leonese language
Leonese (llionés, lleonés) is a set of vernacular Romance language varieties currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain (the modern provinces of León, Zamora, and Salamanca), the village of Riudenore (in both Spain and Portugal) and Guadramil in Portugal, sometimes considered another language.
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Lezgian language
Lezgian, also called Lezgi or Lezgin, is a Northeast Caucasian language.
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Liège
Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
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Loloish languages
The Loloish languages, also known as Yi (like the Yi people) and occasionally Ngwi or Nisoic, are a family of fifty to a hundred Sino-Tibetan languages spoken primarily in Yunnan province of China.
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Luxembourgish
Luxembourgish (also Luxemburgish, Luxembourgian, Letzebu(e)rgesch; Lëtzebuergesch) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg.
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Luxembourgish phonology
This article aims to describe the phonology and phonetics of central Luxembourgish, which is regarded as the emerging standard.
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Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
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Malay orthography
The modern Malay and Indonesian alphabet (Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore: Tulisan Rumi,, Latin script) consists of the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.
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Manner of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the manner of articulation is the configuration and interaction of the articulators (speech organs such as the tongue, lips, and palate) when making a speech sound.
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Modern Hebrew phonology
Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 to 10 vowels, depending on the speaker and the analysis.
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Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and in some usages also the variety of spoken Arabic that approximates this written standard.
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Mutsun language
Mutsun (also known as San Juan Bautista Costanoan) is a Utian language spoken in Northern California.
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Nastaliq
Nastaliq, also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main calligraphic hands used to write the Perso-Arabic script and it is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Classical Persian, Kashmiri, Punjabi (Shahmukhi) and Urdu.
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Navajo language
Navajo or Navaho (Navajo: Diné bizaad or Naabeehó bizaad) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, as are other languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
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Norwegian phonology
The sound system of Norwegian resembles that of Swedish.
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Old Spanish
Old Spanish, also known as Old Castilian (castellano antiguo; roman, romançe, romaz), or Medieval Spanish (español medieval), was originally a dialect of Vulgar Latin spoken in the former provinces of the Roman Empire.
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Persian alphabet
The Persian alphabet (translit), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Persian phonology
The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects, standard varieties, and even from older variates of Persian.
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Phonation
The term phonation has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics.
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Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
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Phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
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Pirahã language
Pirahã (also spelled Pirahá, Pirahán), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil.
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Place of articulation
In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Portuguese orthography
Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
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Portuguese phonology
The phonology of Portuguese varies among dialects, in extreme cases leading to some difficulties in mutual intelligibility.
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Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
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Romanian alphabet
The Romanian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet used for writing the Romanian language.
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Romanian language
Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.
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Romanian phonology
In the phonology of the Romanian language, the phoneme inventory consists of seven vowels, two or four semivowels (different views exist), and twenty consonants.
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Romanization of Japanese
The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language.
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Romanized Popular Alphabet
The Romanized Popular Alphabet (RPA) or Hmong RPA (also Roman Popular Alphabet), is a system of romanization for the various dialects of the Hmong language.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Scottish Gaelic orthography
Scottish Gaelic orthography has evolved over many centuries and is heavily etymologizing in its modern form.
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Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
There is no standard variety of Scottish Gaelic; although statements below are about all or most dialects, the north-western dialects (Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Northwest Highlands) are discussed more than others as they represent the majority of speakers.
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Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
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Serbo-Croatian phonology
Serbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language with four national standards.
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Shanghainese
The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the city of Shanghai and its surrounding areas.
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Shapsug dialect
The Shapsug dialect (Шапсыгъабзэ; Шапсыгъэбзэ) is a dialect of Adyghe.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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Spanish orthography
Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.
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Spanish phonology
This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Spanish language.
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Speech
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Standard Chinese phonology
The phonology of Standard Chinese has historically derived from the Beijing dialect of Mandarin.
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Standard German phonology
The phonology of Standard German is the standard pronunciation or accent of the German language.
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Suret language
Suret (ܣܘܪܝܬ) (ˈsu:rɪtʰ or ˈsu:rɪθ), also known as Assyrian, refers to the varieties of Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) spoken by Christians, namely Assyrians.
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Swedish alphabet
The Swedish alphabet (Svenska alfabetet) is a basic element of the Latin writing system used for the Swedish language.
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Swedish language
Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.
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Swedish phonology
Swedish has a large vowel inventory, with nine vowels distinguished in quality and to some degree in quantity, making 18 vowel phonemes in most dialects.
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Sylheti language
Sylheti (Sylheti Nagri:, síloṭi,; সিলেটি, sileṭi) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by an estimated 11 million people, primarily in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, Barak Valley of Assam, and northern parts of Tripura in India.
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Sylheti Nagri
Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri as well as by many other names, is an Indic script of the Brahmic family.
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Tagalog language
Tagalog (Baybayin) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
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Tagalog phonology
This article deals with current phonology and phonetics and with historical developments of the phonology of the Tagalog language, including variants.
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Taiwanese Mandarin
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu or Huayu, is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
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Tatar alphabet
Three scripts are currently used for the Tatar language: Arabic (in China), Cyrillic (in Russia and Kazakhstan) and Latin (Tatars of Turkey, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland, the USA and Australia use the Tatar Latin alphabet at present).
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Tatar language
Tatar (татар теле, tatar tele or татарча, tatarça) is a Turkic language spoken by the Volga Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan (European Russia), as well as Siberia and Crimea.
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Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.
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Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
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Thai script
The Thai script (อักษรไทย) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand.
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Topsail
A topsail ("tops'l") is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails.
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Turkish alphabet
The Turkish alphabet (Türk alfabesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.
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Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers.
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Turkish phonology
The phonology of Turkish deals with current phonology and phonetics, particularly of Istanbul Turkish.
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Turoyo language
Turoyo (ܛܘܪܝܐ), also referred to as Surayt (ܣܘܪܝܬ), or modern Suryoyo (ܣܘܪܝܝܐ), is a Central Neo-Aramaic language traditionally spoken in the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey and in northern Syria.
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Tuscan dialect
Tuscan (dialetto toscano; label) is a set of Italo-Dalmatian varieties of Romance spoken in Tuscany, Corsica, and Sardinia.
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Ubykh language
Ubykh is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, a subgroup of Circassians who originally inhabited the eastern coast of the Black Sea before being deported en masse to the Ottoman Empire in the Circassian genocide.
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Ubykh phonology
Ubykh, an extinct Northwest Caucasian language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages that do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels.
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Ukrainian alphabet
The Ukrainian alphabet (or алфа́ві́т|abetka, azbuka alfavit) is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine.
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Ukrainian language
Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.
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Ukrainian phonology
This article deals with the phonology of the standard Ukrainian language.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Val Camonica
Val Camonica or Valcamonica (Al Camònega), also Valle Camonica and anglicized as Camonica Valley, is one of the largest valleys of the central Alps, in eastern Lombardy, Italy.
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Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet (lit) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese.
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Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
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Vietnamese phonology
The phonology of Vietnamese features 19 consonant phonemes, with 5 additional consonant phonemes used in Vietnamese's Southern dialect, and 4 exclusive to the Northern dialect.
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Visarga
Visarga (translit-std), in Sanskrit phonology (śikṣā), is the name of the voiceless glottal fricative,, written as 'ः'.
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Voiced glottal fricative
The voiced glottal fricative, sometimes called breathy-voiced glottal transition, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant. Voiceless glottal fricative and voiced glottal fricative are approximant-fricative consonants, glottal consonants and Pulmonic consonants.
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Voiceless nasal glottal approximant
The voiceless nasal glottal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, a nasal approximant, used in some oral languages. Voiceless glottal fricative and voiceless nasal glottal approximant are approximant-fricative consonants, glottal consonants and Pulmonic consonants.
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Voicelessness
In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.
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Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people.
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Welsh orthography
Welsh orthography uses 29 letters (including eight digraphs) of the Latin script to write native Welsh words as well as established loanwords.
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West Frisian language
West Frisian, or simply Frisian (Frysk or Westerlauwersk Frysk; Fries, also Westerlauwers Fries), is a West Germanic language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland (Fryslân) in the north of the Netherlands, mostly by those of Frisian ancestry.
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Yale romanization of Cantonese
The Yale romanization of Cantonese was developed by Gerard P. Kok for his and Parker Po-fei Huang's textbook Speak Cantonese initially circulated in looseleaf form in 1952 but later published in 1958.
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Yi script
The Yi scripts (Yi: ꆈꌠꁱꂷ nuosu bburma) are two scripts used to write the Yi languages; Classical Yi (an ideogram script), and the later Yi syllabary.
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See also
Approximant-fricative consonants
- Voiced glottal fricative
- Voiced pharyngeal fricative
- Voiced uvular fricative
- Voiceless glottal fricative
- Voiceless labial–velar fricative
- Voiceless nasal glottal approximant
Glottal consonants
- Creaky-voiced glottal approximant
- Glottal consonant
- Glottal stop
- Glottalic consonant
- Saltillo (linguistics)
- Voiced glottal fricative
- Voiceless glottal affricate
- Voiceless glottal fricative
- Voiceless nasal glottal approximant
Voiceless approximants
- Voiceless alveolar fricative
- Voiceless glottal fricative
- Voiceless palatal fricative
- Voiceless retroflex fricative
- Voiceless velar fricative
References
Also known as /h/, H (IPA), H ipa, Ipa h, Unvoiced glottal fricative, Voiceless glottal approximant, Voiceless glottal transition, .