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  2. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    The opposition of length in the close vowels has been neutralized in word-final position, only allowing long close vowels in final position. As a result, Sanskrit loans which originally have a short close vowel are realized with a long close vowel, e.g. śakti ( शक्ति – شکتی 'energy') and vastu ( वस्तु – وستو ...

  3. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    The sound represented by ṛ has also been largely lost in the modern languages, and its pronunciation now ranges from [ɾɪ] (Hindi) to [ɾu] (Marathi). ḹ is not an actual phoneme of Sanskrit, but rather a graphic convention included among the vowels in order to maintain the symmetry of short–long pairs of letters.

  4. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    Long vowels are considered to be sequences of vowels and so are not counted as phonemes. [24] Hindi: Indo-European: 44 + (5) 33 + (5) 11 [25] Hungarian: Uralic: 39: 25 14 The vowel phonemes can be grouped as pairs of short and long vowels such as o and ó. Most of the pairs have an almost similar pronunciation and vary significantly only in ...

  5. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Devanagari script is an abugida, as written consonants have an inherent vowel, which in Standard Hindi is a schwa. In certain contexts, such as at the end of words, there is no vowel, a phenomenon called the schwa syncope. [1] Other vowels are written with a diacritic on the consonant letter.

  6. Phonological history of Hindustani - Wikipedia

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    Unstressed (short) vowels are also lost in other positions, particularly initial vowels in words of 3 or more syllables or intertonic short vowels. — Old Hindi aḍhā́ī > Hindustani ḍhāī "two and a half" Lenition of Ṽbh > Vmh and Ṽb > Vm: This change was a dialectal feature, and in regional Hindi variants the archaic form persists ...

  7. Longest words - Wikipedia

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    The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding. Words consisting of hundreds, or even thousands of characters have been coined. Even non-agglutinative languages ...

  8. 20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus ... - AOL

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    But, Parade is here to tell you the longest word, accompanied by the 20 longest words in English and their meanings. The English language is vast, eclectic and a little bit complicated. Among the ...

  9. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest word without any of the main five vowels but including Y: Twyndyllyng Main article: English words without vowels The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are abstemiously , affectiously , and tragediously (OED).