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  2. Vowel length - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.In some languages vowel length is an important phonemic factor, meaning vowel length can change the meaning of the word, for example in Arabic, Czech, Dravidian languages (such as Tamil), some Finno-Ugric languages (such as Finnish and Estonian), Japanese, Kyrgyz, Samoan ...

  3. SAMPA chart - Wikipedia

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    open-mid front rounded vowel: French neuf (hence '9'), German Hölle: 1: ɨ: close central unrounded vowel: Polish mysz @ ə: mid central vowel: English about, German bitte, Swedish beredd: 6: ɐ: near-open central unrounded vowel: German besser, Catalan mare: 3: ɜ: open-mid central unrounded vowel: English bird: a: a~ä: open front unrounded ...

  4. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Because the first letter in a vowel digraph sometimes says its long vowel sound, as in sail, some phonics programs once taught that "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking." This convention has been almost universally discarded owing to the many non-examples, such as the au spelling of the / ɔː / sound and the oo spelling ...

  5. Syllable weight - Wikipedia

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    The first syllable of the first word (arma) is heavy ("long by position") because it contains a short vowel (the A) followed by more than one consonant (R and then M)—and if not for the consonants coming after it, it would be light. The second syllable is light because it contains a short vowel (an A) followed immediately by only one ...

  6. Sanskrit grammar - Wikipedia

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    The Sanskrit language accepts such alterations within it, but offers formal rules for the sandhi of any two words next to each other in the same sentence or linking two sentences. The external sandhi rules state that similar short vowels coalesce into a single long vowel, while dissimilar vowels form glides or undergo diphthongization. [18]

  7. Syllabary - Wikipedia

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    In the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) morae which make up words.. A symbol in a syllabary, called a syllabogram, typically represents an (optional) consonant sound (simple onset) followed by a vowel sound ()—that is, a CV (consonant+vowel) or V syllable—but other phonographic mappings, such as ...

  8. Lexical set - Wikipedia

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    A lexical set is a group of words that share a particular vowel or consonant sound. A phoneme is a basic unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another. Most commonly, following the work of phonetician John C. Wells, a lexical set is a class of words in a language that share a certain vowel phoneme.

  9. Zulu grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first- and second-person forms are created analogically, by duplicating the vowel in the subject concord and then prefixing a. When adjective is used predicatively, the first vowel is dropped from the adjective concord. Forms for the first and second person exist as well.

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