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  2. Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba - Wikipedia

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    Njinga continued to fight the Portuguese until a peace treaty was signed in 1656. [1] In the centuries since her death, Njinga has been increasingly recognized as a major historical figure in Angola and in the wider Atlantic Creole culture. She is remembered for her intelligence, her political and diplomatic wisdom, and her military tactics.

  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Pronunciation task ...

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    Record a pronunciation in OGG format. Much of the advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia/Recording guidelines applies here (e.g. equalization and noise reduction), except that unlike a spoken article, a pronunciation recording should contain only the pronunciation of the word, and no English description or explanation. This allows it ...

  4. Help:IPA/Spanish - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Trailer for 'African Queens: Njinga' tells the story of a ...

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    The season's trailer shows Njinga taking a stand against slavery and defending her kingdom against European colonizers."There are so many stories to be told in rega Trailer for 'African Queens ...

  6. Kingdom of Matamba - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Matamba (pre-1550–1744) was an African state located in what is now the Baixa de Cassange region of Malanje Province of modern-day Angola.Joined to the Kingdom of Ndongo by Queen Nzinga in 1631, the state had many male and female rulers.

  7. Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages - Wikipedia

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    Some speakers have difficulty with the trilled [r] in Russian, especially the palatalized [rʲ] since neither are sounds of English. [15]Non-rhotic speakers, even after learning the rolled-r, are prone to omit /r/ in such Russian words as удар [ʊˈdar] ('blow') and горка [ˈɡorkə] ('hillock').

  8. Spelling pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...

  9. Near-close near-front unrounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of [ɪ] Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound Ɪ .Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound.. The near-close near-front unrounded vowel, or near-high near-front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.