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  2. Chulym language - Wikipedia

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    Soon enough, the language became associated with negative connotations and thus it gained an inferior and low social status. In the film The Linguists, a Chulym native speaker named Vasya Gabov claimed that "Chulym was viewed as a 'gutter language'," and the language was no longer passed on to the children. Furthermore, in the 1970s, the Chulym ...

  3. Guttural - Wikipedia

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    The term 'guttural language' is used for languages that have such sounds. As a technical term used by phoneticians and phonologists , guttural has had various definitions. The concept always includes pharyngeal consonants , but may include velar , uvular or laryngeal consonants as well.

  4. American English regional vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    gutter (Northeast, South, and West), eaves trough (West and Inland North), and rainspouting (Maryland and Pennsylvania) pit (North) and seed (elsewhere) teeter-totter (North; widespread), seesaw (South and Midland; now widespread), and dandle (Rhode Island) firefly (more Northern and Western) and lightning bug (widespread)

  5. Gutter - Wikipedia

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    Gutter, in typography, the space between columns of printed text Gutter, in bookbinding , page edges joined to the spine Gutter (philately) , the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"

  6. Voiced uvular trill - Wikipedia

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    The voiced uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʀ , a small capital version of the Latin letter r. This consonant is one of several collectively called guttural R.

  7. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

  8. Guttural R - Wikipedia

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    However, in Östergötland the pronunciation tends to gravitate more towards [w] and in Västergötland the realization is commonly voiced. Common from the time of Gustav III (Swedish king 1771–1792), who was much inspired by French culture and language, was the use of guttural R in the nobility and in the upper classes of Stockholm. This ...

  9. Western American English - Wikipedia

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    The use of a full (orally released) rather than syllabic pronunciation of /ən/ in the sequence /-tən/, in words like "kitten" or "mountain", is a minor but noted variant reported in the West, for example among some Californians and younger, female Utah speakers; [12] thus, kitten as [ˈkʰɪʔən] in addition to more General American ...