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As an East Slavic language, Belarusian phonology is very similar to both Russian and Ukrainian phonology. The primary differences are: [1] Akannye (Belarusian: аканне) – the merger of unstressed /o/ into /a/. The pronunciation of the merged vowel is a clear open front unrounded vowel [a], including after soft consonants and /j/.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Belarusian on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Belarusian in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The medieval Cyrillic alphabet had 43 letters. Later, 15 letters were dropped, the last 4 after the introduction of the first official Belarusian grammar in 1918. Since four new letters were added, there are now 32 letters. The new letters were: The э ((CYRILLIC) EH) appeared in Belarusian texts in about the late-15th century.
Initially, Belarusian grammar was formalised by notable Belarusian linguist Branislaw Tarashkyevich and first printed in Vil'nya (1918). Historically, there had existed several other alternative Belarusian grammars. See also: Belarusian alphabet, Belarusian phonology, History of the Belarusian language.
Akanye or akanje [1] (Belarusian: аканне, Russian: а́канье, Russian pronunciation: [ˈakənʲjɪ]), literally "a-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes /o/ or /e/ are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction.
The annual circulation of Belarusian language literature significantly decreased from 1990 to 2020: magazines (from 312 mil to 39.6 mil), books and brochures (from 9.3 mil to 3.1 mil). [66] Trilingual Belarusian-English-Russian signs during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests in Minsk
The Phonology of Belarusian-Russian mixed speech is closer to Belarusian. From the point of view of the Russian speaker, the following distinctions are noticeable: presence of palatal affricate consonants [dz̪ʲ] , [ts̪ʲ] instead of [dʲ] , [tʲ] , i.e. [ˈdz̪ʲenʲ] – дзень "day" – instead of [ˈdʲenʲ] день , [ˈts̪ʲixʲɪ ...
The Sound Pattern of English (frequently referred to as SPE) is a 1968 work on phonology (a branch of linguistics) by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle. In spite of its title, it presents not only a view of the phonology of English, but also discussions of a large variety of phonological phenomena of many other languages. The index lists about 100 ...