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133 relations: Afrikaans, Afrikaans phonology, Albanian alphabet, Albanian language, Alternation (linguistics), Amstetten dialect, Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek phonology, Attic Greek, Azerbaijani alphabet, Azerbaijani language, Azores, Bavarian language, Besalú, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton language, Cantonese, Cantonese phonology, Catalan language, Catalan orthography, Catalan phonology, Chechen language, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Chuvash language, Close central rounded vowel, Cornish language, Cyrillic script, Danish and Norwegian alphabet, Danish language, Danish phonology, Déjà vu, De Gruyter, Diphthong, Dutch language, Dutch orthography, Dutch phonology, English language, English orthography, English phonology, Estonian language, Estonian orthography, Estonian phonology, European Portuguese, Faroese language, Faroese orthography, Faroese phonology, Finnish language, Finnish orthography, Finnish phonology, ... Expand index (83 more) »
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- Rounded vowels
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Afrikaans phonology
Afrikaans has a similar phonology to other West Germanic languages, especially Dutch.
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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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Alternation (linguistics)
In linguistics, an alternation is the phenomenon of a morpheme exhibiting variation in its phonological realization.
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Amstetten dialect
The Amstetten dialect is a Central Bavarian dialect spoken in the Austrian town of Amstetten.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Ancient Greek phonology
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.
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Attic Greek
Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens.
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Azerbaijani alphabet
The Azerbaijani alphabet (Azərbaycan əlifbası, آذربایجان اَلیفباسؽ, Азəрбајҹан әлифбасы) has three versions which includes the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.
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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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Azores
The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).
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Bavarian language
Bavarian (Bairisch; Bavarian: Boarisch or Boirisch), alternately Austro-Bavarian, is a major group of Upper German varieties spoken in the south-east of the German language area, including the German state of Bavaria, most of Austria and the Italian region of South Tyrol.
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Besalú
Besalú is a town in the comarca of Garrotxa, in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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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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Breton language
Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France.
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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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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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Chuvash language
Chuvash (Чӑвашла) is a Turkic language spoken in European Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas.
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Close central rounded vowel
The close central rounded vowel, or high central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages. Close front rounded vowel and close central rounded vowel are close vowels and rounded vowels.
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Cornish language
Cornish (Standard Written Form: Kernewek or Kernowek) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family.
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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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Déjà vu
Déjà vu ("already seen") is the phenomenon of feeling as though one has lived through the present situation before.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
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Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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Dutch orthography
Dutch orthography uses the Latin alphabet.
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Dutch phonology
Dutch phonology is similar to that of other West Germanic languages, especially Afrikaans and West Frisian.
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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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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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European Portuguese
European Portuguese (português europeu), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese (português peninsular), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau.
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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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Faroese orthography
Faroese orthography is the method employed to write the Faroese language, using a 29-letter Latin alphabet, although it does not include the letters C, Q, W, X and Z.
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Faroese phonology
The phonology of Faroese has an inventory similar to the closely related Icelandic language, but markedly different processes differentiate the two.
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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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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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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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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
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Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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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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Iaai language
Iaai (Iaai pronunciation: in English as) is a language of Ouvéa Island (New Caledonia).
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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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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Ionic Greek
Ionic or Ionian Greek (Iōnikḗ) was a subdialect of the Eastern or Attic–Ionic dialect group of Ancient Greek.
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Isle of Lewis
The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (Leòdhas) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.
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Kernewek Kemmyn
Kernewek Kemmyn (Common Cornish or "KK") is a variety of the revived Cornish language.
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Khalkha Mongolian
The Khalkha dialect (Халхаялгуу / Halh ayalguu /) is a dialect of central Mongolic widely spoken in Mongolia.
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Koine Greek
Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.
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Koine Greek phonology
The Greek language underwent pronunciation changes during the Koine Greek period, from about 300 BC to 400 AD.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Korean phonology
This article is a technical description of the phonetics and phonology of Korean.
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Kurdish alphabets
Kurdish is written using either of two alphabets: the Latin-based Bedirxan or Hawar alphabet, introduced by Celadet Alî Bedirxan in 1932 and popularized through the Hawar magazine, and the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet.
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Kurdish language
Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a Northwestern Iranian language or group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in Turkey, northern Iraq, northwest and northeast Iran, and Syria.
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Kurdish phonology
Kurdish phonology is the sound system of the Kurdish dialect continuum.
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Kurmanji
Kurmanji (lit), also termed Northern Kurdish, is the northernmost of the Kurdish languages, spoken predominantly in southeast Turkey, northwest and northeast Iran, northern Iraq, northern Syria and the Caucasus and Khorasan regions.
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Language
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary.
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Limburgish
Limburgish (Limburgs or Lèmburgs; Limburgs; Limburgisch; Limbourgeois), also called Limburgan, Limburgian, or Limburgic, is a West Germanic language spoken in Dutch Limburg, Belgian Limburg, and neighbouring regions of Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia).
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Lombard language
The Lombard language (native name: lombard,Classical Milanese orthography, and. lumbard,Ticinese orthography. lumbartModern Western orthography and Classical Cremish Orthography. or lombart,Eastern unified orthography. depending on the orthography; pronunciation) belongs to the Gallo-Italic group within the Romance languages and is characterized by a Celtic linguistic substratum and a Lombardic linguistic superstratum and is a cluster of homogeneous dialects that are spoken by millions of speakers in Northern Italy and southern Switzerland, including most of Lombardy and some areas of the neighbouring regions, notably the far eastern side of Piedmont and the extreme western side of Trentino, and in Switzerland in the cantons of Ticino and Graubünden.
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Low German
Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.
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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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Maastrichtian dialect
Maastrichtian (Mestreechs) or Maastrichtian Limburgish (Mestreechs-Limbörgs) is the dialect and variant of Limburgish spoken in the Dutch city of Maastricht alongside the Dutch language (with which it is not mutually intelligible).
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Modern Greek
Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká, or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, italic), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to as Standard Modern Greek.
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Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet
The Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (Mongolian: Монгол Кирилл үсэг, Mongol Kirill üseg or Кирилл цагаан толгой, Kirill tsagaan tolgoi) is the writing system used for the standard dialect of the Mongolian language in the modern state of Mongolia.
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Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
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Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century.
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Near-close near-front rounded vowel
The near-close front rounded vowel, or near-high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Close front rounded vowel and near-close near-front rounded vowel are front vowels and rounded vowels.
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North Germanic languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.
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Northern Catalan
Northern Catalan (català septentrional), also known as Rossellonese (rossellonès), is a Catalan dialect mostly spoken in Northern Catalonia (roughly corresponding with the region of Roussillon), but also extending in the northeast part of Southern Catalonia in a transition zone with Central Catalan.
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Norwegian orthography
Norwegian orthography is the method of writing the Norwegian language, of which there are two written standards: Bokmål and Nynorsk.
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Norwegian phonology
The sound system of Norwegian resembles that of Swedish.
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Occitan alphabet
The Occitan alphabet consists of the following 23 Latin letters: |- |bgcolor.
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Occitan language
Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.
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Occitan phonology
This article describes the phonology of the Occitan language.
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Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word boundaries, emphasis, and punctuation.
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Phonetic transcription
Phonetic transcription (also known as phonetic script or phonetic notation) is the visual representation of speech sounds (or phones) by means of symbols.
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Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.
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Plautdietsch
Plautdietsch or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia.
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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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Romanization
In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.
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Romanization of Greek
Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
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Romanization of Korean
The romanization of Korean (로마자 표기법; romaja pyogibeop) is the use of the Latin script to transcribe the Korean language.
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Roundedness
In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel.
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Saterland Frisian language
Saterland Frisian, also known as Sater Frisian, Saterfrisian or Saterlandic (Seeltersk), spoken in the Saterland municipality of Lower Saxony in Germany, is the last living dialect of the East Frisian 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 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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Scouse
Scouse, more formally known as Liverpool English or Merseyside English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region.
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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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South African English
South African English (SAfE, SAfEn, SAE, en-ZA) is the set of English language dialects native to South Africans.
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Southern Kurdish
Southern Kurdish (Kurdî Xwarîn) is one of the dialects of the Kurdish language, spoken predominantly in northeastern Iraq and western Iran.
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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
Standard High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (Standardhochdeutsch, Standarddeutsch, Hochdeutsch or, in Switzerland, Schriftdeutsch), is the umbrella term for the standardized varieties of the German language, which are used in formal contexts and for communication between different dialect areas.
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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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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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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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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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Urban East Norwegian
Urban East Norwegian, also known as Standard East Norwegian (standard østnorsk), is a hypothesized Norwegian standard language traditionally spoken in the cities and among the elites of Eastern Norway, which is today the main spoken language of Oslo, its surrounding metropolitan area and throughout much of Eastern Norway.
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Varieties of Modern Greek
The linguistic varieties of Modern Greek can be classified along two principal dimensions.
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Voiced labial–palatal approximant
The voiced labial–palatal (or labio-palatal) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
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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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West Frisian phonology
This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the West Frisian language.
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White South African English phonology
This article covers the phonological system of South African English (SAE) as spoken primarily by White South Africans.
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X-SAMPA
The Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (X-SAMPA) is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C. Wells, professor of phonetics at University College London.
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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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See also
Close vowels
- Close back rounded vowel
- Close back unrounded vowel
- Close central rounded vowel
- Close central unrounded vowel
- Close front rounded vowel
- Close front unrounded vowel
Front vowels
- Close front rounded vowel
- Close front unrounded vowel
- Close-mid front rounded vowel
- Close-mid front unrounded vowel
- Front rounded vowel
- Mid front rounded vowel
- Mid front unrounded vowel
- Near-close near-front rounded vowel
- Near-close near-front unrounded vowel
- Near-open front unrounded vowel
- Open front rounded vowel
- Open front unrounded vowel
- Open-mid front rounded vowel
- Open-mid front unrounded vowel
Rounded vowels
- Close back rounded vowel
- Close central rounded vowel
- Close front rounded vowel
- Close-mid back rounded vowel
- Close-mid central rounded vowel
- Close-mid front rounded vowel
- Front rounded vowel
- Mid back rounded vowel
- Mid front rounded vowel
- Near-close near-back rounded vowel
- Near-close near-front rounded vowel
- Open back rounded vowel
- Open front rounded vowel
- Open-mid back rounded vowel
- Open-mid central rounded vowel
- Open-mid front rounded vowel
References
Also known as /y/, /y̫/, Close front compressed vowel, Close front protruded vowel, Close rounded front vowel, Close-front rounded vowel, Front closed rounded vowel, High front rounded vowel, IPA y, Y (IPA), Yː (IPA).