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The Yorùbá language has not been a vernacular among Yoruba descendants in the Americas since the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade; devotees of the Orisa religion as it formed in the Spanish Caribbean use a liturgical language that developed from its remains. Lucumí has also been influenced by the phonetics and pronunciation of Spanish ...
I SUB aro rice OBJ kwete. eat VERB Ti aro kwete. I rice eat SUB OBJ VERB "I eat rice" Young and Givón describe the sentence features in which Ngäbere differs from typical S–O–V languages: "Although the language bears the unmistakable marks of an SOV language, auxiliaries and modality verbs precede – rather than follow – their compliments. This also extends to the negative marker ...
(3) Vivía la abuela Ca’aj, quien deseaba mucho tener hijos. (4) Deseaba mucho tener hijos, pero aquel tiempo era tiempo de tinieblas. (5) Se preocupó, se preocupó la abuela Ca’aj. (6) Entonces ella dijo, “Tengo esposo!” (1) Here is an ancient legend that I am going to tell you all, you, and anyone who can hear this.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Luna (or Luna Inkongo) is a Bantu language of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Assigned by Guthrie to a group called Songe (L.20), it is presumably one of the Luban languages established by Ahmed (1995), like most of the other Songe languages, though it was not specifically addressed. [ 3 ]
There is a variance in the pronunciation of the lax vowels across the dialects. Some dialects lower the given vowel, others center the vowel but do not lower it. The Xenacoj dialect used here both centers and lowers the vowels with a tendency to more strongly lower close vowels and more strongly center back vowels [citation needed].
Howard and O'Brien call the retroflex phonemes in the above table retroflex, while Huber & Reed use the alveolo-palatal symbols. More specifically, Howard uses tṣ and ṣ , [5] O'Brien uses tʂ and ʂ , [6] and Huber & Reed use tɕ and ɕ .
Ixil language is spoken in Mexico in some municipalities of the states of Campeche and Quintana Roo.In the state of Campeche is spoken in the communities of Los Laureles and Quetzal-Edzná from the Campeche municipality and in Maya Tecún in Champotón municipality, while in Quintana Roo is spoken in the towns of Maya Balam and Kuchumatán, Bacalar municipality.