- used. However, when
there are
complementary allophones of a phoneme, the
allophony becomes significant and
things then
become more complicated. Often, if...
-
Korean is the
native language for
about 81
million people,
mostly of
Korean descent. It is the
national language of both
South Korea and
North Korea. In...
- (yod) as in
yacht and
spelled ⟨y⟩ in Spanish. As with
other forms of
allophony across world languages, the
small difference of the
spelled ⟨ll⟩ and the...
-
Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷwɛɲja]) is a
constructed language, one of
those devised by J. R. R.
Tolkien for the
Elves in his Middle-earth fiction.
Tolkien began...
-
consonants (e.g. щит [ɕːit] 'shield', чин [t͡ɕin] 'rank', etc.). The
allophony of the
stressed variant of the open /a/ is
largely the same, yet no scholar...
-
Algonquin (also
spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: Anicinàbemowin or Anishinàbemiwin) is
either a
distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe...
-
Slovincian (Slovincian: slôvjinskjy, IPA: [slɵˈvjinskjɪ]; Polish: słowiński [swɔˈvij̃skʲi]; Kashubian: słowińsczi [swɔˈviɲst͡ɕi]) is an
extinct language...
- Gulf
Arabic or
Khaleeji (خليجي Ḵalījī
local pronunciation: [χɑˈliːdʒiː] or اللهجة الخليجية il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya,
local pronunciation: [(ɪ)lˈlæhdʒæ lχɑˈliːdʒiːjæ])...
- lateral, but
since no
language makes a
distinction for centrality, the
allophony is not noticeable.
Place of
articulation Index of
phonetics articles Maddieson...
- Oʼodham (pronounced [ˈʔɔʔɔðam],
English approximation: /ˈoʊ.ɒðəm, -dəm/ OH-od(h)-əm) or Papago-Pima is a Uto-Aztecan
language of
southern Arizona and northern...