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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Lithuanian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Lithuanian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The simplified phonetic transcription of Lithuanian language (in Wikipedia) is created to help users of Wikipedia who want a more precise pronunciation of certain words in the Lithuanian language. Lithuanian has no standard pronunciation marks for general usage (signs of the Prahan phonetic alphabet are mostly used for Lithuanian transcription ...
Lithuanian is traditionally described as having nine diphthongs, ai, au, ei, eu, oi, ou, ui, ie, and uo. However, some approaches (i.e., Schmalstieg 1982) treat them as vowel sequences rather than diphthongs; indeed, the longer component depends on the type of stress, whereas in diphthongs, the longer segment is fixed.
The letters ą and ę were taken from the Polish spelling for what at the time were nasal vowels. They were first used by Renaissance Lithuanian writers. Later the letters į and ų were introduced for the remaining nasal vowels, which have since denasalized. [3] [5] Letter ū is the latest addition by linguist Jonas Jablonskis. [3] [5]
The Lithuanian prosodic system is characterized by free accent and distinctive quantity (i.e. syllable weight). The word prosody of Lithuanian is sometimes described as a restricted tone system, also called a pitch accent system. [125] In Lithuanian, lexical words contain a single syllable that is
It is the 9th letter in the Lithuanian alphabet and is also used in the Potawatomi language [citation needed] and the Cheyenne language [citation needed]. It was coined by Daniel Klein, the author of the first printed grammar of the Lithuanian language, Grammatica Litvanica (1653). [1] [2]
A weatherman in the U.K. wowed viewers this week by rattling off the name with perfect pronunciation. Actress Naomi Watts went viral earlier this year when she flawlessly pronounced the name on ...
In Lithuanian, it is the 28th letter of the alphabet, and is pronounced as long close back rounded vowel ([uː]). In the past, the letter was used to denote the nasalized close back rounded vowel ([ũ]). Currently, it appears in the words that used to be nasalized in the past, for example in siųsti, which means send. [1]