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Used in loanwords and transliterations only. Words borrowed from English can alternatively retain the original j or g . Many speakers pronounce dsch as [t͡ʃ] (= tsch ), because [dʒ] is not native to German. dt [t] Used in the word Stadt, in morpheme bounds (e.g. beredt, verwandt), and in some proper names. f [f] g: otherwise
A list of Japanese words in German reveals that none of the words with four syllables has initial stress, confirming the three-syllable-window analysis. Secondary stresses precede the main stress if at least two syllables are present, as in ̩Bib-li- ̩o-the-'ka-rin.
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in ...
In Welsh, the digraph ll fused for a time into a ligature.. A digraph (from Ancient Greek δίς (dís) 'double' and γράφω (gráphō) 'to write') or digram is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. Consider moving articles about concepts and things into a subcategory of Category:Concepts by language, as appropriate.
drz is used for /dʒ/ in English transcriptions of the Polish digraph dż . dsh is used for the foreign sound /dʒ/ in German. A common variant is the tetragraph dsch . It is used in Juǀʼhoan for the prevoiced aspirated affricate /d͡tsʰ/. dsj is used for foreign loan words with /dʒ/ Norwegian. Sometimes the digraph dj is used.
Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
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