Encyclopedia - Ñ: Encyclopedia - Ñ
Ñ or enye, (Spanish eñe) represents a palatal nasal (IPA: /ɲ/). This is reminiscent of /nj/ as in "onion" IPA: /'ʌnjən/. It is the f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet, called quốc ngữ (national language), is the current writing system for the Vietnamese language. It is based ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal: Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal
The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that rep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Consonants - Ordered By Place Of Articulation
List of consonants - Labial consonants. bilabial click [ʘ] bilabial ejective [pʼ] bilabial nasal [m] (man) bilabial trill [ʙ] bila...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palatal Lateral Approximant: Encyclopedia Ii - Palatal Lateral Approximant - In Other Languages
Palatal lateral approximant - Catalan. Catalan has the palatal lateral approximant as a phoneme, where it is denoted by the digraph ll ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Phonology And Phonetics
Quebec French has more phonemes than France French, as /a/ and /ɑ:/, /ɛ/ and /ɜ:/, and /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/ are still clearly opposed whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Phonology - Phonological Processes
Japanese contains a number of phonological processes which greatly alter the phonetic realization of consonants and vowels. A few are lis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Digraph Orthography: Encyclopedia Ii - Digraph Orthography - Sequences
This is a group of two letters, both of which are different. Examples from languages include: Basque tx, corresponds to [tʃ] (voiceles...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Icelandic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Icelandic Language - Sounds
Icelandic has an aspiration contrast between plosives, rather than a voicing contrast, something relatively rare among European languages...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sino-japanese: Encyclopedia Ii - Sino-japanese - Chart Of Correspondences
Note: MC: Middle Chinese Go: 呉音 Go-on, from Wu during the 5th and 6th centuries Kan: 漢音 Kan-on, from the Tang Dynasty during the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - The Letters
The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order: A Ă Â B C D Đ E Ê G H I K L M N O Ô Ơ P Q R S T U Ư ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - The Letters
The Vietnamese alphabet has the following 29 letters, in collating order: Vietnamese contains the 8 digraphs and 1 trigraph below, but th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal: Encyclopedia Ii - Velar Nasal - Features
Features of the velar nasal: Its manner of articulation is stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palatal Lateral Approximant: Encyclopedia Ii - Palatal Lateral Approximant - In Other Languages
Palatal lateral approximant - Catalan. Catalan has the palatal lateral approximant as a phoneme, where it is denoted by the digraph ll ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Phonology And Phonetics
Quebec French has more phonemes than France French, as /a/ and /ɑ:/, /ɛ/ and /ɜ:/, and /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/ are still clearly opposed whe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Icelandic Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Icelandic Language - Sounds
Icelandic has an aspiration contrast between plosives, rather than a voicing contrast, something relativly rare among European languages....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Regional Variations
Several regions within Quebec display accents and vocabulary that are typical. Among them, the Quebec Beauce is known to have a peculiar ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Grammar And Syntax
In general, standard spoken and written Quebec French uses the same grammar as the French of France, though there are isolated exceptions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Lexicon
Main article: Quebec French lexicon There are a number of lexical differences between Quebec French and the French of France; these are d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Phonology - Prosody
In Japanese, an accented mora is pronounced with higher pitch than the following mora. This is part of the Japanese intonation pattern. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - History
The Vietnamese language was first written down, from the 13th century onwards, using variant Chinese characters (chữ nôm 字喃), each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Morphology
The adjectival suffix -euse is added to verbal stems to form "the machine that verbs." For example laver -> laveuse "washing machine";...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Phonology - Moras And Phonotactics
If considered as a system of morae (or moras) instead of syllables, (as the katakana and hiragana phonetic writing systems explicitly do)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Phonology: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Phonology - Vowels
Japanese has 5 vowels: [i, ɯ̹̈ ~ ü̜, e̞, o̞, ä] Japanese vowels are pronounced as monophthongs, unlike in English; they are sim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Grammar And Syntax
In general, standard spoken and written Quebec French uses the same grammar as the French of France, though there are isolated exceptions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Velar Nasal: Encyclopedia Ii - Velar Nasal - In Other Languages
The [ŋ] sound is a fairly common sound cross-linguistically. It is unusual in that in many languages it is only permitted in postvocalic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - History
Main article: History of Quebec French Quebec French is substantially different in pronunciation and vocabulary from the other varieties ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - History
The Vietnamese language was first written down, from the 13th century onwards, using variant Chinese characters (chữ nôm 字喃), each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - Tone Markings
Vietnamese is a tonal language, i.e. the meaning of each word depends on the "tone" (basically a specific pitch and glottalization patter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Consonants - Ordered By Manner Of Articulation
List of consonants - Nasal consonants. alveolar nasal [n] bilabial nasal [m] dental nasal [n̪] labiodental nasal [ɱ] palatal nasal [...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Standardization
Although Quebec French constitutes a coherent and standard system, it has no objective norm since the very organization mandated to estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Interintelligibility With Other Dialects
Interintelligibility of formally and informally spoken Quebec French with France French is a matter of heated debates between linguists. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - History
Main article: History of Quebec French Quebec French is substantially different in pronunciation and vocabulary from the other varieties ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Standardization
Although Quebec French constitutes a coherent and standard system, it has no objective norm since the very organization mandated to estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Regional Variations
Several regions within Quebec display accents and vocabulary that are typical. Among them, the Quebec Beauce is known to have a peculiar ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Lexicon
Main article: Quebec French lexicon There are a number of lexical differences between Quebec French and the French of France; these are d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Morphology
The adjectival suffix -euse is added to verbal stems to form "the machine that verbs." For example laver -> laveuse "washing machine";...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quebec French: Encyclopedia Ii - Quebec French - Interintelligibility With Other Dialects
Interintelligibility of formally and informally spoken Quebec French with France French is a matter of heated debates between linguists. ...   » Read the article