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In Vietnamese, ch represents the voiceless palatal plosive [c] in the initial position. In the final position, the pronunciation is [jk̟̚]. In Xhosa and Zulu, ch represents the voiceless aspirated velar dental click [kǀʰ]. In Obolo, ch represents a . It is considered a single letter since 'c' and 'h' do not exist independently in the Obolo ...
In word-final position, the French tetragraph cque is sometimes used for /k/ in some loan words, such as sacque (an old spelling of sack). The tetragraph sthm ( /s͡θ͜m/ ) is only used in the word i sthm us.
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets.In the list, letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetical order according to their base, e.g. å is alphabetised with a , not at the end of the alphabet, as it would be in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
The pronunciation of syllable-final ch and nh in Hanoi Vietnamese has had different analyses. One analysis, that of Thompson (1965) has them as being phonemes /c, ɲ/, where /c/ contrasts with both syllable-final t /t/ and c /k/, and /ɲ/ contrasts with syllable-final n /n/ and ng /ŋ/. Final /c, ɲ/ is, then, identified with syllable-initial ...
In the word-final position the contrast between the voiceless /p, t, tʃ, k, f, s, ʃ, χ/ on the one hand and the voiced /b, d, dʒ, ɡ, v, z, ʒ, ʁ/ on the other is neutralized in favor of the former, unless a word-initial vowel follows in which case the obstruent is voiced and are resyllabified, that is, moved to the onset of the first syllable of the next word (the same happens with /ts ...
However, a large number of Germanic words have y in word-final position. Some other examples are ph pronounced / f / (which is most commonly f ), and ch pronounced / k / (which is most commonly c or k ).
The following table shows the 24 consonant phonemes found in most dialects of English, plus /x/, whose distribution is more limited. Fortis consonants are always voiceless, aspirated in syllable onset (except in clusters beginning with /s/ or /ʃ/), and sometimes also glottalized to an extent in syllable coda (most likely to occur with /t/, see T-glottalization), while lenis consonants are ...
ch in most French loanwords, but in final position often respelled sch . English loanwords with this spelling usually use the tje-sound g in words mainly from French, for example generös (generous) and gentil (generous, posh, stylish) ge mostly in the end of the word in many French loanwords, like garage, prestige