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As said, Lithuanian has a free accent, which means that its position and type is not phonologically predictable and has to be learned by heart. This is the state of affairs inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic and, to a lesser extent, from Proto-Indo-European ; Lithuanian circumflex and acute syllables directly reflect Proto-Balto-Slavic acute and ...
Two spelling variants are used for foreign personal names: original spelling (e. g. George Walker Bush as a title of an encyclopedic article or as a name of an author of a book, or George'as Walkeris Bushas in a sentence, conforming to the Lithuanian morphology) and phonetic spelling adapted to the Lithuanian phonology (e. g. Džordžas ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Lithuanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Lithuanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Lithuanian prosodic system is characterized by free accent and distinctive quantity (i.e. syllable weight). The word prosody of Lithuanian is sometimes described as a restricted tone system, also called a pitch accent system. [133] In Lithuanian, lexical words contain a single syllable that is
In Lithuanian phonology, stressed heavy syllables are pronounced in one of two prosodically distinct ways. [1] [2] One way is known as the acute or falling accent: this may be described as "sudden, sharp or rough". In Lithuanian it is called tvirtaprãdė príegaidė, literally 'firm-start accent'.
LST 1564:2000 is a character encoding used to write the Lithuanian language. It is a modification of ISO/IEC 8859-13 to support the accented Lithuanian letters. [1]
2 Vowel table for the Lithuanian language. 5 comments. 3 IPA convention. 1 comment. 4 Telšiai. 1 comment. 5 MoS naming style. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents.
The simplified phonetic transcription of Lithuanian language (in Wikipedia) is created to help users of Wikipedia who want a more precise pronunciation of certain words in the Lithuanian language. Lithuanian has no standard pronunciation marks for general usage (signs of the Prahan phonetic alphabet are mostly used for Lithuanian transcription ...