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  2. Vowel reduction in Russian - Wikipedia

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    Generally, vowel reduction is not reflected in the Russian spelling. However, in some words, the spelling has been changed based on vowel reduction and so some words are spelled despite their etymology: паро́м (instead of поро́м, meaning 'ferry'), карава́й (instead of корова́й, meaning a special type of bread).

  3. Russian phonology - Wikipedia

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    Russian vowel chart by Jones & Trofimov (1923:55). The symbol i̝ stands for a positional variant of /i/ raised in comparison with the usual allophone of /i/, not a raised cardinal which would result in a consonant. Russian stressed vowel chart according to their formants and surrounding consonants, from Timberlake (2004:31, 38). C is hard (non ...

  4. Help:IPA/Russian - Wikipedia

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    The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Russian pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.

  5. Vowel reduction - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal vowel chart showing peripheral (white) and central (blue) vowel space, based on the chart in Collins & Mees (2003:227). Phonetic reduction most often involves a mid-centralization of the vowel, that is, a reduction in the amount of movement of the tongue in pronouncing the vowel, as with the characteristic change of many unstressed vowels at the ends of English words to something ...

  6. Russian alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Russian alphabet contains 10 vowel letters. They are grouped into soft and hard vowels. [12] The soft vowels, е, ё, и, ю, я , either indicate a preceding palatalized consonant, or (with the exception of и ) are iotated (pronounced with a preceding /j/) in all other cases. The IPA vowels shown are a guideline only and sometimes are ...

  7. Akanye - Wikipedia

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    Akanye or akanje [1] (Belarusian: аканне, Russian: а́канье, Russian pronunciation: [ˈakənʲjɪ]), literally "a-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes /o/ or /e/ are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction.

  8. Russian orthography - Wikipedia

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    Russian is written with a modern variant of the Cyrillic script. Russian spelling typically avoids arbitrary digraphs. Except for the use of hard and soft signs, which have no phonetic value in isolation but can follow a consonant letter, no phoneme is ever represented with more than one letter.

  9. Ya (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    The standard Russian language reduces the vowel to , but yakanye dialects я undergo no reduction unlike other instances of the /a/ phoneme (represented with the letter а ). In Bulgarian, the vowel sound is reduced to /ɐ/ in unstressed syllables and is pronounced /ɤ̞/ in both stressed verb and definite article endings.