- A
monosyllabic language is a
language in
which words predominantly consist of a
single syllable. An
example of a
monosyllabic language would be Old Chinese...
- "cough", and "and" are
examples of monosyllables. Some of the
longest monosyllabic words in the
English language, all
containing nine
letters each, are...
- and are no
longer counted as such:
Chinese is
often described as a '
monosyllabic' language. However, this is only
partially correct. It is
largely accurate...
-
single unambiguously correct answer. Some nine-letter
proper names remain monosyllabic when
adding a
tenth letter and
apostrophe to form the possessive: Laugharne's...
- [n] and
attaches to the
previous syllable, so that it is
pronounced monosyllabically [-ˈbœln-]. The
pronunciation [-ˈbœln̩-], with a
syllabic [n̩] is not...
-
verbs from the
Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database. The
following are
monosyllabic Proto-Austronesian
roots reconstructed by John
Wolff (Wolff 1999). Forms...
- Old High
German is an
inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and
adjectives must be
declined in
order to
serve a
grammatical function. A...
- profundity. By a
different process,
laxing is also
found in
disyllabic and
monosyllabic words, for example,
shade vs shadow, lose vs lost.
Trisyllabic laxing...
-
consistent metrical foot; however, the
lines correspond roughly to a
monosyllabic tetrameter, a
dactylic tetrameter, a
trochaic tetrameter, and an iambic...
- gentille) adds a [j]
sound if the l is
preceded by the
letter i. Some
monosyllabic function words ending in a or e, such as je and que, drop
their final...
