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  2. Assimilation (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of phonological process across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word or between words. It occurs in normal speech but becomes more common in more rapid speech.

  3. Vowel harmony - Wikipedia

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    The vowel that causes the vowel assimilation is frequently termed the trigger while the vowels that assimilate (or harmonize) are termed targets. When the vowel triggers lie within the root or stem of a word and the affixes contain the targets, this is called stem-controlled vowel harmony (the opposite situation is called dominant). [1]

  4. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close copy"); [5] while the word loanword and the phrase loan translation are translated from German nouns Lehnwort [6] and Lehnübersetzung (German: [ˈleːnʔybɐˌzɛt͡sʊŋ] ⓘ). [7]

  5. Modern Hebrew phonology - Wikipedia

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    Modern Hebrew has 25 to 27 consonants and 5 vowels [1], depending on the speaker and the analysis.. Hebrew has been used primarily for liturgical, literary, and scholarly purposes for most of the past two millennia.

  6. Assimilation - Wikipedia

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    Cultural assimilation, the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs . Language shift, also known as language assimilation, the progressive process whereby a speech community of a language shifts to speaking another language

  7. Play Just Words Online for Free - AOL.com

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    If you love Scrabble, you'll love the wonderful word game fun of Just Words. Play Just Words free online! ... Lions coach Dan Campbell has gone for it on 4th down an NFL-record 151 times in a 4-s

  8. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O.

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