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  2. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    This word is shared with British English. Course [18] — Academic degree. Shared with British English partly due to the Spanish word curso and its borrowed form in many Philippine languages. Cutex [10] — Nail polish. Dean's lister [39] — A person awarded a dean's list; Despedida party [7] [5] — A farewell party. The word despedida is a ...

  3. Philippine English - Wikipedia

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    Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.

  4. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    In the vowels chart, a separate phonetic value is given for each major dialect, alongside the words used to name their corresponding lexical sets. The diaphonemes for the lexical sets given here are based on RP and General American; they are not sufficient to express all of the distinctions found in other dialects, such as Australian English.

  5. Voiced alveolar and postalveolar approximants - Wikipedia

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    Tagalog: parang [paɹaŋ] 'like-' Allophone of the more usual and traditional flap or trill [ɾ ~ r] and is sometimes thus pronounced by some younger speakers due to exposure to mainstream English. Turkish: Marmara Region: artık [aɹtɯk] 'excess, surplus' Occurs as an allophone of in syllable coda, in free variation with post-alveolar .

  6. Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect ("correct" or "standard" pronunciation) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language. [1] (Pronunciation ⓘ)

  7. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    English: chomp yum yum, nom nom slurp, glug gulp Estonian: amps näm näm, nämm nämm kull kull lonks Filipino: nam nam: lunók: tsuka tsuka: Finnish: rousk nam nam, nami nami klup French: miam, crounche miam miam glouglouglou gloups German: mampf mampf mampf, hamm hamm, mjam schlürf, gluck schluck Gujarati: gudgud Hebrew: אָממ אָממ ...

  8. Help:IPA/Tagalog - Wikipedia

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

  9. Taglish - Wikipedia

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    It is a form of Philippine English that mixes Tagalog/Filipino words, where opposite to Taglish, English is the substratum and Tagalog/Filipino is the superstratum. The most common aspect of Coño English is the building of verbs by using the English word "make" with the root word of a Tagalog verb: