Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Catalan phonology (or Valencian phonology) has a certain degree of dialectal variation.Although there are two standard varieties, one based on Central Eastern dialect and another one based on South-Western or Valencian, this article deals with features of all or most dialects, as well as regional pronunciation differences.
The keys above (Help:IPA/Catalan § Key for standard Catalan and Valencian) represent only standard pronunciations across Wikipedia, however it is also included additional transcriptions for Insular Catalan (see Help:IPA/Insular Catalan) and for varieties such as North-Western and the Valencian dialects with vowel harmony (see "Other ...
Catalan is a pluricentric language; the pronunciation of some of the letters is different in Central Eastern Catalan and Valencian . Apart from those variations, the pronunciation of most consonants is fairly straightforward and is similar to French, Occitan or Portuguese pronunciation.
See also wikt:Help:Audio pronunciations. Upload the pronunciation to Wikimedia Commons using the Upload Wizard. At the "Release rights" step, it is recommended to select "Use a different license" and then "Creative Commons CC0 Waiver" — because audio pronunciations are very short, the requirements imposed by other licenses can be problematic.
The following are the non-pulmonic consonants.They are sounds whose airflow is not dependent on the lungs. These include clicks (found in the Khoisan languages and some neighboring Bantu languages of Africa), implosives (found in languages such as Sindhi, Hausa, Swahili and Vietnamese), and ejectives (found in many Amerindian and Caucasian languages).
Jessie Owen was traveling with her family twelve years ago when, while going through a mountain pass, a tree fell on their car. “In that moment, my parents passed away, my siblings were severely ...
Minnie Driver knows how to get a conversation started. Amid the growing number of celebrities candidly speaking about their cosmetic enhancements, The Assessment actress, 54, asked a series of ...
The pronunciation and distribution of sibilants (with different results according to voicing and affrication vs. deaffrication). While, arguably there are seven to eight sibilants in Standard Catalan and Standard Valencian, dialects like Central Valencian and Ribagorçan only have three or four. The usage of the voiced labiodental fricative ...