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To prevent hate speech (e.g. calling people names such as kaffir, koelies, hotnot, etc.) To prevent harassment [ 3 ] In February 2008, there was controversy in South Africa after Irvin Khoza , then chairperson of the 2010 FIFA World Cup organizing committee, used the term during a press briefing in reference to a journalist.
The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association.
K-word may refer to: Kaffir (racial term), a racial slur used in South Africa; Kike, an antisemitic ethnic slur; Keling, a racial slur to denote a person originating from the Indian subcontinent, including overseas Indians; Khokhol, a racial slur used in Russia against Ukrainians. Kurwa, a profanity in Polish
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.
This is a list of all the consonants which have a dedicated letter in the International Phonetic Alphabet, plus some of the consonants which require diacritics, ordered by place and manner of articulation.
The part-of-speech field is used to disambiguate 770 of the words which have differing pronunciations depending on their part-of-speech. For example, for the words spelled close, the verb has the pronunciation / ˈ k l oʊ z /, whereas the adjective is / ˈ k l oʊ s /. The parts-of-speech have been assigned the following codes:
The voiceless velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in almost all spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is k , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is k.