Search results for "Vowel" - New World Encyclopedia
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- * Vowel reduction |group2 = Tone |list2 = * Tone contour ... * Vowel reduction * Accent |group4 = Length |list4 = * Chroneme ...1 KB (108 words) - 22:45, 15 February 2023
- It uses four different accents for each vowel: ā, á, ǎ, à, but sometimes the tones are represented by numbers 1 2 3 4 (e.g., pīnyīn or ...690 bytes (92 words) - 15:28, 19 August 2023
- syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel. # A letter representing ... used as a consonant and sometimes as a vowel. ===Derived terms=== ...1 KB (165 words) - 16:20, 30 November 2023
- made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). They can influence the rhythm ...728 bytes (107 words) - 16:53, 25 February 2023
- The current pronunciation of the first vowel of the singular began to appear in western England in the thirteenth century under the rounding ...4 KB (502 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2024
- than one way of indicating vowels. The main vowel of a word or phrase was indicated ... of writing. As mentioned above, each vowel was written next to the consonant ...12 KB (1,802 words) - 12:46, 22 July 2022
- where each consonant has an inherent vowel that can be changed using ... Modern Gurmukhī has forty-one consonants (vianjan), nine vowel symbols ...20 KB (2,621 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2024
- certain dialects of North American English, the vowel of the second syllable is deleted and the word is pronounced as one syllable. In such dialects ...3 KB (435 words) - 20:09, 30 September 2023
- What is pronounced as a close-mid back unrounded vowel is written ... * The Pinyin vowel cluster ong is ung in Wade-Giles. (Compare Kung ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- it might also be simply a connecting vowel. The compound may either express a nominal phrase (Ab[i]ram = "[my] father is exalted" ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- abugida, as each consonant has an inherent vowel (a), that can be changed ... two other consonants so that the inherent vowel is suppressed. The resulting ...27 KB (3,705 words) - 10:12, 29 January 2024
- an idiosyncratic theory that words containing vowel sounds made in the front of the palate (in Russian, E, I, YU) should be used when depicting ...9 KB (1,383 words) - 17:53, 9 November 2022
- meter may have to follow a pattern such as: long vowel, long vowel, short, long, short. Although this type of measure was natural in ancient Greek ...12 KB (1,947 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- langauge had no clear vowels, subsequent vowel sounds were added to the ... kinds of symbols to the text: niqud (vowel points) and cantillation ...11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- syllabic in nature. Every consonant sign has the vowel অ ... (or sometimes the vowel ও [o] ) "embedded" or "inherent ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- represents a consonant followed by a vowel, or just a vowel alone, though in some scripts more complex syllables (such as consonant-vowel-consonant ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- three which indicate the following vowel was invented in Ugarit before ... to use the rounded U when they meant the vowel u and the pointed V when ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The ay-men pronunciation, a product of the Great Vowel Shift dating to the fifteenth century, is associated with Irish Protestantism and conservative ...6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
- other forms of juncture, nasalization and vowel harmony), which, in many ... can occur immediately only before a vowel, never before a consonant. ...45 KB (6,537 words) - 15:24, 25 February 2023
