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Some languages contrast laminal denti-alveolar and apical alveolar nasals. For example, in the Malayalam pronunciation of Nārāyanan, the first n is dental, the second is retroflex, and the third alveolar. A postalveolar nasal occurs in a number of Australian Aboriginal languages, including Djeebbana and Jingulu. [1]
Bura [1] [example needed] Contrasts with and . [1] English: South African: ibandla [iˈbaːnɮa] 'meeting of a Nguni chief or community' Only found in Zulu loan words in South African English. Kabardian: блы [bɮə] ⓘ 'seven' Can also be pronounced as : Ket: олын [ɔɮɨn] 'nose' Can also be pronounced as : Moloko [2] zlan [ɮàŋ ...
The voiced alveolar, dental and postalveolar plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in many spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced dental, alveolar, and postalveolar plosives is d (although the symbol d̪ can be used to distinguish the dental plosive, and d̠ the postalveolar), and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is d.
[1] The labiodental pronunciation of [ɱ] is very similar to that of the bilabial nasal [m] , but instead of the lips touching each other, the lower lip touches the upper teeth. The position of the lips and teeth is generally the same as for the production of the labiodental fricatives [f] and [v] , though air escapes between the lip and the ...
The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral fricatives is [ɬ], and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K. The symbol [ɬ] is called "belted l" and is distinct from "l with tilde", [ɫ] , which transcribes a different sound – the velarized (or pharynɡealized) alveolar ...
The voiceless dental plosive can be distinguished with the underbridge diacritic, t̪ and the postalveolar with a retraction line, t̠ , and the Extensions to the IPA have a double underline diacritic which can be used to explicitly specify an alveolar pronunciation, t͇ . The [t] sound is a very common sound cross-linguistically. [1]
The presence of [v] and absence of [w], is a very distinctive areal feature of European languages and those of adjacent areas of Siberia and Central Asia. [ citation needed ] Speakers of East Asian languages that lack this sound may pronounce it as [b] ( Korean and Japanese ), or [f] / [w] ( Cantonese and Mandarin ), and thus be unable to ...
Coronal places of articulation include the dental consonants at the upper teeth, the alveolar consonants at the upper gum (the alveolar ridge), the various postalveolar consonants (including domed palato-alveolar, laminal alveolo-palatal, and apical retroflex) just behind that, the subapical retroflex consonants curled back against the hard palate, and linguolabial consonants with the tongue ...