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Lithuanian is traditionally described as having nine diphthongs, ai, au, ei, eu, oi, ou, ui, ie, and uo. However, some approaches (i.e., Schmalstieg 1982) treat them as vowel sequences rather than diphthongs; indeed, the longer component depends on the type of stress, whereas in diphthongs, the longer segment is fixed.
See Lithuanian phonology: Macedonian: џемпер/džemper [ˈd͡ʒɛmpɛr] 'sweater' See Macedonian phonology: Malay: jahat [d͡ʒahat] 'evil' Maltese: ġabra [d͡ʒab.ra] 'collection' Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᡝ/juwe [d͡ʒuwe] 'two' Marathi: जय/jay [d͡ʒəj] 'victory' Contrasts with the aspirated form. Allophone and . See Marathi phonology ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Lithuanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Lithuanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
For foreign names, two spelling variants are used: original spelling (e. g. George Walker Bush as a title of an encyclopedic article or as a name of an author of a book, or George'as Walkeris Bushas in a sentence, conforming to the Lithuanian morphology) and phonetic spelling adapted to the Lithuanian phonology (e. g. Džordžas Volkeris Bušas ...
Moreover, with Lithuanian being so archaic in phonology, Slavic words can often be deduced from Lithuanian by regular sound laws; for example, Lith. vilkas and Polish wilk ← PBSl. *wilkás (cf. PSl. *vьlkъ) ← PIE *wĺ̥kʷos, all meaning "wolf".
In the Lithuanian phonology, stressed heavy syllables are pronounced in one of two prosodically distinct ways. [1] [2] One way is known as the acute or falling accent: this may be described as "sudden, sharp or rough". In Lithuanian it is called tvirtaprãdė príegaidė, literally 'firm-start accent'.
The voiced alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is l , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is l.
Pages in category "Lithuanian language" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. ... Lithuanian orthography; Lithuanian phonology; LST 1564;