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The orthography is based on the Spanish alphabet, with additional rules to account for the large phonetic inventory of Mazahua: A diagonal strikethrough indicates a reduced vowel (these letters were added to Unicode in 2016) [4] Underline indicates a nasal vowel [5] An apostrophe indicates an ejective consonant or glottalic consonant
The French œil, Italian occhio, Spanish ojo, and Portuguese olho appear quite different, but they descend from a historical form oculus. German Auge , Dutch oog and English eye (cf. Czech and Polish oko , Russian and Ukrainian око ( óko )) are related to this form in that all three descend from Proto-Indo-European *okʷ .
Its material was the source for a compendium of characters used for development of artificial intelligence, the Omniglot Challenge. [9] [10] The Omniglot compendium has been used widely since it was first released. [11] [12] [13] As of November 2024, the number of languages detailed on the site is over 2,100. [14]
The Palaeotype alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by Alexander John Ellis to describe the pronunciation of English. It was based on the theory of Bell's Visible Speech , but set in roman script, and attempted to include the sounds conveyed by Lepsius 's Standard Alphabet as well.
The phone occurs as a deaffricated pronunciation of /tʃ/ in some other dialects (most notably, Northern Mexican Spanish, informal Chilean Spanish, and some Caribbean and Andalusian accents). [14] Otherwise, /ʃ/ is a marginal phoneme that occurs only in loanwords or certain dialects; many speakers have difficulty with this sound, tending to ...
Catalan roba 'clothes', Spanish huevo 'egg' f: f: voiceless labiodental fricative: English fool, Spanish fama ('fame') v: v: voiced labiodental fricative: English voice, German Welt 'world' T: θ: voiceless dental fricative: English thing, Castilian Spanish caza 'hunt' D: ð: voiced dental fricative: English this, Icelandic fræði 'science' s ...
The modern Unifon alphabet. The Unifon alphabet contains 40 glyphs, intended to represent the 40 "most important sounds" of the English language. Although the set of sounds has remained the same, several of the symbols were changed over the years, making modern Unifon somewhat different from Old Unifon.
The International Phonetic Alphabet is occasionally modified by the Association. After each modification, the Association provides an updated simplified presentation of the alphabet in the form of a chart. (See History of the IPA.) Not all aspects of the alphabet can be accommodated in a chart of the size published by the IPA.