Encyclopedia - Voiced Velar Plosive: Encyclopedia - Voiced Velar Plosive
The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive: Encyclopedia - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive
The voiceless bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Close Central Unrounded Vowel: Encyclopedia - Close Central Unrounded Vowel
The close central unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alpha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Close Central Unrounded Vowel: Encyclopedia Ii - Close Central Unrounded Vowel - Occurs In
Close central unrounded vowel - English. For some dialects of English that distinguish between two reduced vowels, barred-i is used to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centum-satem Isogloss: Encyclopedia Ii - Centum-satem Isogloss - Proto-indo-european Dorsals
The Centum-Satem isogloss discusses the treatement of the three dorsal rows reconstructed for PIE, *kÊ·, *gÊ·, *gÊ·Ê° (labiovelars), *k, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gbe Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Gbe Languages - Linguistic Features
Gbe languages - Sounds. The following phonetic segments are attested in Gbe languages: Notes When symbols appear in pairs, the one to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chilcotin Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chilcotin Language - Sounds
Chilcotin language - Consonants. Chilcotin has 47 consonants: Like many Athabaskan languages, Chilcotin does not have a contrast betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St'at'imcets Language: Encyclopedia Ii - St'at'imcets Language - Sounds
St'at'imcets language - Consonants. St'at'imcets has 44 consonants: Obstruents consist of the stops, affricates, and fricatives. There...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive: Encyclopedia Ii - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive - In English
English has both aspirated and plain [p], but they are allophones. When [p] occurs at the beginning of a word or a stressed syllable, lik...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St'at'imcets Language: Encyclopedia Ii - St'at'imcets Language - Regional Varieties
St'at'imcets has two main dialects: Upper St’at’imcets (a.k.a. St’aá’imcets, Fountain) Lower St’at’imcets (a.k.a. Lil'wat7Ã...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St'at'imcets Language: Encyclopedia Ii - St'at'imcets Language - Text
The following is a portion of a story in van Eijk (1981:87) told by Rosie Joseph of Mount Currie. St'at'imcets: Nilh aylh lts7a sMáma ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St'at'imcets Language: Encyclopedia Ii - St'at'imcets Language - Grammar
St'at'imcets has two main types of words: full words variable words invariable words clitics proclitics enclitics The variable wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centum-satem Isogloss: Encyclopedia Ii - Centum-satem Isogloss - Satem
The Satem languages show the characteristic change of the so-called Proto-Indo-European palato-velars (*ḱ, *ǵ, *ǵʰ) into affricate a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive: Encyclopedia Ii - Voiceless Bilabial Plosive - In Greek
Ancient Greek had plain and aspirated [p] phonemes, written pi (Ï€) and phi (φ) respectively. The aspirated form developed into [f] by H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gbe Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Gbe Languages - History
Gbe languages - Before 1600. Ketu, in present day Benin, might be an appropriate starting point for a brief history of the Gbe-speaking...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gbe Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Gbe Languages - Languages
Gbe languages - Geography and demography. The Gbe language area is bordered to the west and east by the Volta river in Ghana and the We...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centum-satem Isogloss: Encyclopedia Ii - Centum-satem Isogloss - Centum
In the Centum languages, the palato-velar consonants merged with plain velars (*k, *g, *gÊ°). Most of the Centum languages preserve Proto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Centum-satem Isogloss: Encyclopedia Ii - Centum-satem Isogloss - Origins Of The Sound Change
In the 19th century, it was sometimes assumed that the centum-satem isogloss was the original dialect division of the Indo-European langu...   » Read the article