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Differences in pronunciation between American English (AmE) and British English (BrE) can be divided into . differences in accent (i.e. phoneme inventory and realisation).See differences between General American and Received Pronunciation for the standard accents in the United States and Britain; for information about other accents see regional accents of English.
République du Congo Repubilika ya Kôngo Republíki ya Kongó: Brazzaville Balazavile Brazzaville: French Kongo Lingala: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kinshasa: République démocratique du Congo Republíki ya Kongó Demokratíki Repubilika ya Kôngo ya Dimokalasi Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo: Kinshasa Kinsasa Kinsásá Kinshasa ...
The Tamasheq language has seven vowels in total: two frontal vowels /i/, /æ/; three central vowels /ə/, /æ/, /a/; and two back vowels /u/, /o/. There are two short vowels, /ə/ and /æ/, where /ə/ may be elided in some contexts, and /æ/ is always short but may be phonetically realized as a sound ranging from [æ] to [a], distinguished from /a/ which is always [ɑː].
French settlement influences are prevalent in the Bay d’Espoir and Port au Port Peninsula on the west coast of the island. [10] Newfoundland French was deliberately discouraged by the government of Newfoundland in the public schools during the mid-20th century, and only a small handful of people, who are mainly elderly, still fluently speak ...
Samuel de Champlain chose the name in 1608 for the new town there, [140] which gave its name to a section of French Canada and then the British province of Quebec, which eventually became modern Canada and even briefly included the entire Ohio River valley between the enactment of the Quebec Act in 1774 and the surrender of the region to the ...
Labov identifies an "Inland Canada" region that concentrates all of the defining features of the dialect centred on the Prairies (a region in Western Canada that mainly includes Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and is known for its grasslands and plains), with more variable patterns including the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Toronto. [12]
The pronunciation in final open syllables is always phonemically /ɑ/, but it is phonetically [ɑ] or [ɔ] (Canada [kanadɑ] ⓘ or [kanadɔ] ⓘ), the latter being informal. There are some exceptions; the words la, ma, ta, sa, fa, papa and caca are always pronounced with the phoneme /a/.
Le centenaire de la Confédération Les enfants du pays, ensemble! (English verse): CA-NA-DA (One little two little three Canadians) We love thee (Now we are twenty million) CA-NA-DA (Four little five little six little Provinces) Proud and free (Now we are ten and the Territories sea to sea) (Second Chorus): Rah! Vive le Canada! Three cheers ...