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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
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Czech is a quantity language: it differentiates five vowel qualities that occur as both phonologically short and long. The short and long counterparts generally do not differ in their quality, although long vowels may be more peripheral than short vowels.
Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises such as oink, meow, roar, and chirp. Onomatopoeia can differ by language: it conforms to some extent to the broader linguistic system. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hence, the sound of a clock may be expressed variously across languages: as tick tock in English , tic tac in Spanish and Italian (see photo ...
Hantec (Czech pronunciation: [ˈɦan.tɛts]) is a unique dialect previously spoken among lower classes in Brno, Czech Republic during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It developed from the mixing of the Czech language as spoken in Moravia with the languages of other residents of Brno, including Germans and Jews.
pram – from Czech prám, a flatbottomed boat, through Dutch praam and Middle Dutch praem [1] robot – from Czech robot (machine resembling a human being), introduced in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. from the 1920s. Semtex – a plastic explosive named after Semtín, part of the city of Pardubice, Czech Republic, location of its manufacturer.
There are more forms of the Czech language used in Moravia than in the rest of the Czech Republic. The main four groups of dialects are the Bohemian-Moravian group, the Central Moravian group, the Eastern Moravian group and the Lach (Silesian) group (which is also spoken in Czech Silesia). [2] While the forms are generally viewed as regional ...
Ř is a letter in the Upper Sorbian alphabet.In the Upper Sorbian language it denotes the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ʃ]. [5] The letter only occurs after p, t, and k; [5] it originates from older r that had been devoiced by those sounds by the early 9th century, and became a sibilant in the following centuries. [6]