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  2. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    In addition, the following tongue shapes are described, from sharpest and highest-pitched to dullest and lowest-pitched: Hollow (e.g. [s]): This hollow accepts a large volume of air that is forced through a typically narrow aperture that directs a high-velocity jet of air against the teeth, which results in a high-pitched, piercing "hissing ...

  3. List of diglossic regions - Wikipedia

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    As English is one of the two official languages of Pakistan, the other being Urdu, there is a degree of diglossia between the upper and middle and lower classes. The upper and upper-middle classes tend to be educated in English medium schools whereas the lower class are schooled in either Urdu or one of the regional languages (usually Pashto or ...

  4. Polysynthetic language - Wikipedia

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    Another way to achieve a high degree of synthesis is when languages can form compound words by incorporation of nouns, so that entire words can be incorporated into the verb word, as baby is incorporated in the English verb babysit. Another common feature of polysynthetic languages is a tendency to use head marking as a means of syntactic ...

  5. Varieties of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Najdi Arabic has /a/ when the following vowel is /i/, and /i/ when the following vowel is /a/. All sedentary dialects share the following additional innovations. Loss of a separately distinguished feminine plural in verbs, pronouns and demonstratives. This is usually lost in adjectives as well. Development of a new indicative-subjunctive ...

  6. Standard solution - Wikipedia

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    Standard solutions are generally prepared by dissolving a solute of known mass into a solvent to a precise volume, or by diluting a solution of known concentration with more solvent. [1] A standard solution ideally has a high degree of purity and is stable enough that the concentration can be accurately measured after a long shelf time. [2]

  7. Hendecasyllable - Wikipedia

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    In poetry, a hendecasyllable (as an adjective, hendecasyllabic) is a line of eleven syllables.The term may refer to several different poetic meters, the older of which are quantitative and used chiefly in classical (Ancient Greek and Latin) poetry, and the newer of which are syllabic or accentual-syllabic and used in medieval and modern poetry.

  8. Syllogism - Wikipedia

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    The premises also have one term in common with each other, which is known as the middle term; in this example, humans. Both of the premises are universal, as is the conclusion. Major premise: All mortals die. Minor premise: All men are mortals. Conclusion/Consequent: All men die.

  9. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known text listing them, though not explicitly as a system, is the Rhetorica ad Herennium, of unknown authorship, where they are called πλεονασμός (pleonasmos —addition), ἔνδεια (endeia —omission), μετάθεσις (metathesis —transposition) and ἐναλλαγή (enallage —permutation). [4]