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  2. Palam (music) - Wikipedia

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    Palam (Nepali: पालाम) is a Nepalese folk song of the Limbu community. [1] It is sung in various cultural gatherings and events such as marriage, festivals, carnivals. etc. It is typically sung while dancing Dhan Nach. [2] It is sung step by step as a question and answer session between the boy and the girl.

  3. Dhan Nach - Wikipedia

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    Dhan Nach (Nepali: धाननाच) / Yalang (Limbu: ᤕᤠᤗᤠᤅ Yalang) or (English: Paddy dance) is a traditional Limbu folk dance, which originated in the Limbuwan region of Nepal. [1] It is performed by people from Limbu (Yakthung) communities, native to Eastern Nepal as well as Darjeeling , Kalimpong and Sikkim regions of India .

  4. CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The pronunciation is encoded using a modified form of the ARPABET system, with the addition of stress marks on vowels of levels 0, 1, and 2. A line-initial ;;; token indicates a comment. A derived format, directly suitable for speech recognition engines is also available as part of the distribution; this format collapses stress distinctions ...

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Pronunciation

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    If the pronunciation in a specific accent is desired, square brackets may be used, perhaps with a link to IPA chart for English dialects, which describes several national standards, or with a comment that the pronunciation is General American, Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc. Local pronunciations are of particular interest in ...

  6. Wikipedia : Pronunciation (simple guide to markup, American)

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    The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary suggests the first pronunciation. Similarly, this pronunciation markup guide will choose the most widely used form. NOTE: This guide is designed to be simple and easy to use. This can only be achieved by giving up scope and freedom from occasional ambiguity.

  7. Pronunciation respelling for English - Wikipedia

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    A pronunciation respelling for English is a notation used to convey the pronunciation of words in the English language, which do not have a phonemic orthography (i.e. the spelling does not reliably indicate pronunciation). There are two basic types of pronunciation respelling:

  8. Pomegranate - Wikipedia

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    Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as apple of Grenada—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology , confusing the Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada , which is derived from an unrelated Arabic word.

  9. Help:Pronunciation respelling key - Wikipedia

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    As designated in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation, the standard set of symbols used to show the pronunciation of English words on Wikipedia is the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The IPA has significant advantages over this respelling system, as it can be used to accurately represent pronunciations from any language in the world ...