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The Chaná language [2] (autolinguonym: Lanték, meaning "speak" or "language"; from lan, "tongue" and tek, a communicative suffix) [3] is one of the Charruan languages spoken by the Chaná people in what is now Argentina and Uruguay along the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers on the margins of the Río de la Plata.
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 ...
This unmerged pronunciation predominates in the Andes, lowland Bolivia, Paraguay, some rural regions of Spain and some of northern Spain's urban upper class. [ 1 ] For terms that are more relevant to regions that have seseo (where words such as caza and casa are pronounced the same), words spelled with z or c (the latter only before i or e ...
The voiced palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʎ , a rotated lowercase letter y , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is L.
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 ...
The Judaeo-Spanish pronunciation of s as "[ʃ] ... El judeoespañol es la lengua hablada por los judíos sefardíes expulsados [note 2] de España en 1492. Es una ...
Aʼingae, commonly known as Cofán or Kofán, is the primary language of the Aʼi (Cofán) people, an indigenous group whose ancestral territory lies at the interface between the Andean foothills and Amazonia in the northeast of Ecuador (Sucumbíos province) and southern Colombia (Putumayo & Nariño provinces).
The phonemes /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are pronounced as voiced stops only after a pause, after a nasal consonant, or—in the case of /d/ —after a lateral consonant; in all other contexts, they are realized as approximants (namely [β̞, ð̞, ɣ˕], hereafter represented without the downtacks) or fricatives.