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English: Indo-European: 44 40: 24 20 16 Counting diphthongs as vowels; General American has 16 vowels while Received Pronunciation has 20 vowels, See English phonology [16] Finnish: Uralic: 21 + (4) 13 + (4) 8 [17] French: Indo-European: 34 + (1) 20 + (1) 14 Vowels have been merged into /a/ and /ɛ̃/, respectively, in Parisian French. /ŋ/ is ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The word cadre is sometimes pronounced / ˈ k ɑː d r eɪ / in English, as though it were of Spanish origin. In French, the final e is silent and a common English pronunciation is / ˈ k ɑː d r ə /. [8] Legal English is replete with words derived from Norman French, which for a long time was the language of the courts in England and Wales ...
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
Spanish has a fricative [ʃ] for loanwords of origins from native languages in Mexican Spanish, loanwords of French, German and English origin in Chilean Spanish, loanwords of Italian, Galician, French, German and English origin in Rioplatense Spanish and Venezuelan Spanish, Chinese loanwords in Coastal Peruvian Spanish, Japanese loanwords in ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
French is the third most spoken language (after English and Spanish) in the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. [86] Louisiana is home to many distinct French dialects, collectively known as Louisiana French. New England French, essentially a variant of Canadian French, is spoken in parts of New England.
However, from about AD 1500 onwards, Indo-European languages expanded their territories to North Asia , through Russian expansion, and North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand as the result of the age of European discoveries and European conquests through the expansions of the Portuguese, Spanish, French, English and the Dutch ...