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Syllabification (/sɪˌlæbɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/) or
syllabication (/sɪˌlæbɪˈkeɪʃən/), also
known as hyphenation, is the
separation of a word into syllables, whether...
- kala 'fish' is
syllabified ka-la.
Consonant combinations are
syllabified before the last consonant:
linna 'town [gen sg]' is
syllabified lin-na, tutvus...
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states that "Subject to
certain conditions ...,
consonants are
syllabified with the more
strongly stressed of two
flanking syllables",
while many...
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prefixes (see below).
Hyphenation is also
routinely used as part of
syllabification in
justified texts to
avoid unsightly spacing (especially in columns...
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stressed vowel forms a
syllable with a
letter other than s. Thus, raízes (
syllabified as ra-í-zes), incluído (in-clu-í-do), saía (sa-i-a) and saíste (sa-ís-te)...
- are not
counted in
syllabification, so for
instance "cat" is a long
syllable in isolation, but "cat attack"
would be
syllabified as short-short-long:...
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belong to the next syllable. For example,
mangwanani ("morning") is
syllabified as [ma.ᵑɡwa.na.ni];
Zimbabwe is [zi.ᵐba.ɓwe].
Shona is
written with a...
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additional rules: 1. One
letter is not hyphenated. So, the word
abuelo is
syllabified a-bue-lo, but the only way to
hyphenate it at the end of a line is abue-lo...
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Tongan (English pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an
Austronesian language of the
Polynesian branch native to the
island nation...
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nasal alone and
shorter than a
sequence of
nasal plus stop. The
nasal is
syllabified with the
onset of the
following syllable,
which means that the moraic...
