Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The word rhyme can be used in a specific and a general sense. In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness, love and dove.
Short I or Yot/Jot (Й й; italics: Й й or Й й; italics: Й й) (sometimes called I Kratkoye, ‹See Tfd› Russian: и краткое, Ukrainian: йот) or I with breve, Russian: и с бреве) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. [1] It is made of the Cyrillic letter И with a breve. The short I represents the palatal approximant /j ...
The Russian alphabet (ру́сский алфави́т, russkiy alfavit, [ a ] or ру́сская а́збука, russkaya azbuka, [ b ] more traditionally) is the script used to write the Russian language. It is derived from the Cyrillic script, which was modified in the 9th century to capture accurately the phonology of the first Slavic ...
Typography and iconicity. [edit] The International Phonetic Alphabet is based on the Latin script, and uses as few non-Latin letters as possible. [ 6 ] The Association created the IPA so that the sound values of most letters would correspond to "international usage" (approximately Classical Latin). [ 6 ]
In some languages, diphthongs are single phonemes, while in others they are analyzed as sequences of two vowels, or of a vowel and a semivowel. Sound changes. [edit] Certain sound changes relate to diphthongs and monophthongs. Vowel breakingor diphthongization is a vowel shiftin which a monophthong becomes a diphthong.
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. [ 1 ] Examples of semivowels in English are the consonants y and w in yes and west, respectively. Written / jw / in IPA, y and w are near to ...
Historical development. The Old English vowels included a pair of short and long close back vowels, /u/ and /uː/, both written u (the longer vowel is often distinguished as ū in modern editions of Old English texts). There was also a pair of back vowels of mid-height, /o/ and /oː/, both of which were written o (the longer vowel is often ō ...
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrínō, "to distinguish"). The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in ...