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A profound change in very late spoken Latin (Vulgar Latin, the forerunner of all the Romance languages) was the restructuring of the vowel system of Classical Latin.Latin had thirteen distinct vowels: ten pure vowels (long and short versions of a, e, i, o, u ), and three diphthongs ( ae, oe, au ). [2]
One must be aware, firstly, that word-final -x is a medieval shorthand for -us (in Old French people wrote chevax for chevaus, later written chevaux when the idea behind this -x was forgotten) (except in words like voix and noix where 's' was changed to 'x' by restoration of Latin usage (vox and nux)).
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 "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
Fuchien Province [I] [1] (Mandarin pronunciation: [fǔ.tɕjɛ̂n] ⓘ), also romanized as Fujian and rendered as Fukien, is a de jure administrative division of 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.
In French versification, word-final schwa is always elided before another vowel and at the ends of verses. It is pronounced before a following consonant-initial word. [ 45 ] For example, une grande femme fut ici, [yn ɡʁɑ̃d fam fy.t‿i.si] in ordinary speech, would in verse be pronounced [y.nə ɡʁɑ̃.də fa.mə fy.t‿i.si] , with the ...
The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...
Russian transcription of French vowels French Russian transcription Examples Comments phoneme(s) grapheme(s) [a], [ɑ] a, â а: Charles – Шарль [e], [ɛ] é, è, ê, ai, e е: René – Рене э: Edmond – Эдмон Citroën – Ситроэн at the beginning of a word, following a vowel, or rarely for [ɛ] at the end of a word ...