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  2. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    Spanish has six falling diphthongs and eight rising diphthongs. While many diphthongs are historically the result of a recategorization of vowel sequences (hiatus) as diphthongs, there is still lexical contrast between diphthongs and hiatus. [85] Some lexical items vary by speaker or dialect between hiatus and diphthong.

  3. Occitan phonology - Wikipedia

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    The stress is oxytone if the last syllable ending in a consonant or a diphthong ending in -u or -i (occitan /utsiˈta/, verai); while the stress is penultimate if the last syllable ending in a vowel (or vowel + -s) and vowel + -n when in the case of third-person plural verb forms (libre, libres, parlan), the stress is also penultimate when the ...

  4. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...

  5. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The pulmonic consonant table, which includes most consonants, is arranged in rows that designate manner of articulation, meaning how the consonant is produced, and columns that designate place of articulation, meaning where in the vocal tract the consonant is produced. The main chart includes only consonants with a single place of articulation.

  6. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Some analysts recognize the existence of another consonant, the /ɰ/ used only in the diphthong /ɰi/, and describe Korean's sound inventory as having as many as ten vowels. Vowels / ø / and / y / continue to be used only by older speakers, and have been replaced with /we/ and /wi/, respectively.

  7. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Icelandic, both monophthongs and diphthongs are pronounced long before single consonants and short before most consonant clusters. Some languages contrast short and long diphthongs. In some languages, such as Old English , these behave like short and long vowels, occupying one and two morae , respectively.

  8. Manner of articulation - Wikipedia

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    Examples include English /p t k/ and /b d ɡ/ . If the consonant is voiced, the voicing is the only sound made during occlusion; if it is voiceless, a stop is completely silent. If the consonant is voiced, the voicing is the only sound made during occlusion; if it is voiceless, a stop is completely silent.

  9. Spanish dialects and varieties - Wikipedia

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    These dialects have important phonological differences compared to varieties of Spanish proper; for example, they have preserved the voiced/voiceless distinction among sibilants as they were in Old Spanish. For this reason, the letter s , when written single between vowels, corresponds to a voiced [z] —e.g. rosa [ˈroza] ('rose').