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English orthography and Greek language

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Difference between English orthography and Greek language

English orthography vs. Greek language

English orthography is the system of writing conventions used to represent spoken English in written form that allows readers to connect spelling to sound to meaning. Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Similarities between English orthography and Greek language

English orthography and Greek language have 17 things in common (in Unionpedia): Aspirated consonant, Diaeresis (diacritic), Dialect, English language, English words of Greek origin, Fricative consonant, Latin, Loanword, Morpheme, Past tense, Phonology, Silent letter, Stress (linguistics), Upsilon, Voice (phonetics), Voicelessness, Vowel.

Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Diaeresis (diacritic)

The diaeresis (plural: diaereses), also spelled diæresis or dieresis and also known as the tréma (also: trema) or the umlaut, is a diacritical mark that consists of two dots placed over a letter, usually a vowel.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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English words of Greek origin

The Greek language has contributed to the English vocabulary in five main ways.

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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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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Loanword

A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.

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Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.

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Past tense

The past tense (abbreviated) is a grammatical tense whose principal function is to place an action or situation in past time.

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Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

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Silent letter

In an alphabetic writing system, a silent letter is a letter that, in a particular word, does not correspond to any sound in the word's pronunciation.

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Stress (linguistics)

In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.

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Upsilon

Upsilon (or; uppercase Υ, lowercase υ; ύψιλον ýpsilon) or ypsilon is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

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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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English orthography and Greek language Comparison

English orthography has 178 relations, while Greek language has 252. As they have in common 17, the Jaccard index is 3.95% = 17 / (178 + 252).

References

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