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  2. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Language Biting Eating food Drinking Swallowing Brushing teeth Afrikaans: nom, gomf gloeg gloeg gloeg Albanian: ham, kërr, krrëk ham-ham, njam-njam

  4. Onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Czechs of Romania - Wikipedia

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    The Czechs (Czech: Češi, Pémové; Romanian: Cehi, Pemi; Hungarian: Bánáti csehek) are an ethnic minority in Romania, [1] numbering 3,938 people according to the 2002 census. The majority of Romanian Czechs live in the south-west of the country, with around 60% of them living in Caraș-Severin County , where they make up 0.7% of the population.

  6. Czech phonology - Wikipedia

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    The usage of the glottal stop as an onset in such syllables confirms this tendency in the pronunciation of Bohemian speakers. In Common Czech, the most widespread Czech interdialect, prothetic v– is added to all words beginning with o– in standard Czech, e.g. voko instead of oko (eye). The general structure of Czech syllables is:

  7. List of company towns - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Czech Republic. 1.3 Denmark. 1.4 France. 1.5 Germany. 1.5.1 Former GDR. 1.6 Hungary. ... primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul ...

  8. Romani people in Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia

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    During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II, Romani were exterminated by Nazi mobile killing units and in camps such as Lety, Hodonín and Auschwitz.In the Czech areas of the country, 90% of native Romani were killed during the war; the Romani in modern-day Czech Republic are mostly post-war immigrants from Slovakia or Hungary and their descendants.

  9. Romani people in the Czech Republic - Wikipedia

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    Romani people (Czech: Romové, commonly known as Gypsies Czech: Cikáni) are an ethnic minority in the Czech Republic, currently making up around 2% of the population. Originally migrants from North Western India sometime between the 6th and 11th centuries, they have long had a presence in the region.