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  • 101Ubykh phonology — Ubykh, a North West Caucasian language, has the largest consonant inventory of all documented languages which do not use clicks, and also has the most disproportional ratio of phonemic consonants to vowels. It also possesses consonants at at… …

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  • 102Esperanto phonology — The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, did not specify phonemic phonetic correspondences for his language. Instead, he simply described the orthography as one letter, one sound . Literally interpreted, this is impossible: Every language has… …

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  • 103Persian phonology — The Persian language has six vowels and twenty three consonants, including two affricates, IPA|/tʃ/ and IPA|/dʒ/.VowelsDiachronically, Persian possessed a distinction of length in its underlying vowel inventory, contrasting the long vowels… …

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  • 104Register (phonology) — In linguistics, a register language, also known as a pitch register language, is a language which combines tone and vowel phonation into a single phonological system. Burmese and the Chinese dialect Shanghainese are examples. Burmese is often… …

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  • 105Yiddish phonology — There is significant phonological variation among the various dialects of the Yiddish language. The description that follows is of a modern Standard Yiddish that was devised during the early 20th century and is frequently encountered in… …

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  • 106Quebec French phonology — Quebec French has more phonemes than Metropolitan French as it retains phonemic distinctions between IPA|/a/ and IPA|/ɑː/, IPA|/e/ and IPA|/ɛ/, and IPA|/ɛ̃/ and IPA|/œ̃/ whereas the latter of each pair has disappeared in Paris and several other… …

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  • 107Czech phonology — Main article: Czech language This article discusses the phonological system of the Czech language Contents 1 Vowels 1.1 Long vowels 1.2 Short vowels 1.3 …

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  • 108Belarusian phonology — The phonological system of the modern Belarusian language consists of 45 (54) phonemes: 6 vowels and 39 (48) consonants [Usually, the number of 39 is quoted, excluding the 9 geminated versions of consonants as mere variations . Sometimes, rare… …

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  • 109Tamil phonology — The Tamil alphabet distinguishes 12 vowels and 18 consonants. These combine to form 216 compound characters. There is one special character ( aaytha ezutthu ), giving a total of 247 characters.VowelsThe vowels are called uyir ezhuthu ( uyir life …

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  • 110Inuit phonology — This article makes reference primarily to the Inuktitut dialects of Canada, although it provides some discussion of other dialects. Following standard notation, phonemes are written between two slashes, e.g. /p/ ; and phonetic transcriptions are… …

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