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The people of different regions may use different words for the same concept or pronounce the same word differently. [4] Vowel sounds may change; for example, the word for “to see” that is pronounced /toen/ in some regions may be pronounced /tuen/ in other areas; the word for “you” may be pronounced /mä/ or /ma/ depending on the region.
A notable characteristic of Panamanian Spanish, and other varieties of Caribbean Spanish, is the debuccalization of the /s/ sound at the end of a syllable or word, such as in the word cascada, 'waterfall', pronounced [kahˈkaða] (like "h" in the English word "he") instead of [kasˈkaða]. This results in a phonetic merger with /x/.
In the Guna language, they call themselves Dule or Tule, meaning "people", and the name of the language is Dulegaya, literally "people-mouth". [2] The term was in the language itself spelled Kuna prior to a 2010 orthographic reform, [ 3 ] but the Congreso General de la Nación Gunadule since 2010 has promoted the spelling Guna .
The Emberá listen ⓘ, also known in the historical literature as the Chocó or Katío Indians are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. In the Emberá languages, the word ẽberá can be used to mean person, man, or indigenous person, depending on the context in which it is used. There are approximately 33,000 people living in Panama ...
The name's popularity may have been hindered by the tendency to pronounce it / p ə ˈ m iː l ə / pə-MEE-lə which was not fully superseded by the now-standard / ˈ p æ m əl ə / PAM-ə-lə until the start of the 20th century when the name finally entered general usage. [6] Pamelia was a commonly used version of the name in use in the ...
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Names beginning with or containing the letter L have also been particularly fashionable for girls. [10] It is also found as a surname, sometimes with a prefix, for example, de Luna or Deluna. The similar sounding Runa has been used in at least one instance as a nonstandard pronunciation in Japan for the Japanese kanji 月, meaning moon.
However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands". The natives of the southwestern part of today's Iran called their land "the Persian Iraq" for many centuries (for Arabs: Iraq ajemi: non-Arabic-speaking Iraq). Before the constitution of the state of Iraq, the term "Iraq arabi" referred to ...