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  2. Semivowel - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable. [1] Examples of semivowels in English are y and w in yes and west, respectively.

  3. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association. It is not a complete list of all possible speech sounds in the world's languages, only those about which stand-alone articles exist in this encyclopedia.

  4. Help:IPA/Yoruba - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Yoruba on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Yoruba in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Voiced palatal approximant - Wikipedia

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    For the reasons mentioned above and in the article velar approximant, none of those symbols are appropriate for languages such as Spanish, whose post-palatal approximant consonant (not a semivowel) appears as an allophone of /ɡ/ before front vowels and is best transcribed ʝ̞˗ , ʝ˕˗ (both symbols denote a lowered and retracted ʝ ), ɣ̞ ...

  6. Proto-Yoruboid language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Yoruboid was likely part of a larger dialectal continuum.Several theories have been created to explain how the language later broke up into its modern descendants, usually identifying 300 BC as the time in which a major climate crisis lasting from the fourth century BC to the third century AD across West Africa, forced Proto-Yoruboid speakers to migrate westward and southward, forming ...

  7. Yoruba alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Nigerian Yoruba alphabet is made up of 25 letters, without C Q V X Z but with the additions of Ẹ, Ọ, Ṣ and Gb. [1] [2] However, many of the excluded consonants are present in several dialectal forms of Yoruba, including V, Z, and other digraphs (like ch, gh, and gw). Central Yoruba dialects also have 2 extra vowels that are allophones ...

  8. Voiced labial–palatal approximant - Wikipedia

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    The voiced labial–palatal (or labio-palatal) approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages, for example, French "huitième", read as [ɥitjɛm].

  9. Voiced velar approximant - Wikipedia

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    The voiced velar approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɰ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is M\.