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à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.
Julien Miquel AIWS is a French YouTuber and winemaker, best known for making word pronunciation videos on his eponymous channel, with over 50,000 uploads as of May 2024. Several native speakers have criticised him for butchering the pronunciation of their languages.
Fuchien Province [I] [1] (Mandarin pronunciation: [fǔ.tɕjɛ̂n] ⓘ), also romanized as Fujian and rendered as Fukien, is a de jure administrative division of the Taiwan (ROC). Provinces remain a titular division as a part of the Constitution of the Republic of China , but are no longer considered to have any practical administrative function.
The process is the movement of final consonants across word boundaries to initial position in vowel-initial words so as to better conform to the French language's preference for open syllables (over 70%) [dubious – discuss], i.e., V, CV, or CCV, especially where two vowels might otherwise link together (vowel hiatus).
Instead, it simply adds the word 無 (bô) at the end of the sentence to indicate that it is a question (similar to Mandarin's 嗎 (ma) or adds a Cantonese intonation 咩 (me1) at the end. Adding the word 無 (bô) at the end of a sentence is also used in Taiwanese Hokkien, when one is asking a question in an informal way.
Ho-Chunk's vowel sounds are distinguished by nasality and length. That is to say, the use of a nasal vowel or a long vowel affects a word's meaning. This is evident in examples such as pąą /pãː/ ' bag ' compared to paa /paː/ ' nose ', and waruc /waˈɾutʃ/ ' to eat ' compared to waaruc /waːˈɾutʃ/ ' table '. [5]
Pe̍h-ōe-jī (白話字) is a Latin alphabet developed by Western missionaries working in Southeast Asia in the 19th century to write Hokkien. Pe̍h-ōe-jī allows Hokkien to be written phonetically in Latin script, meaning that phrases specific to Hokkien can be written without having to deal with the issue of non-existent Chinese characters.