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  2. List of languages by number of phonemes - Wikipedia

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    7 [49] Turkish: Turkic: 31 + (1) 23 + (1) 8 Some consider ğ to be a separate phoneme. Ubykh: Northwest Caucasian: 86-88: 84 2-4 4 consonants are only found in loanwords. Urdu: Indo-European: 61: 48 11 + (2) Besides its Indo-Aryan base, Urdu includes a range of phonemes which are derived from other languages such as Arabic, Persian, English ...

  3. English phonology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns, and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic.

  5. 156 Popular Horse Names From Stately and Regal to Funny and ...

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    The best horse name for your female or male horse or pony is on this list of cute, classic, popular, funny, and rare name ideas, like Seabiscuit and Goldie. 156 Popular Horse Names From Stately ...

  6. International Phonetic Alphabet chart - Wikipedia

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    The following is the chart of the International Phonetic Alphabet, a standardized system of phonetic symbols devised and maintained by the International Phonetic Association.

  7. International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In some English accents, the phoneme /l/, which is usually spelled as l or ll , is articulated as two distinct allophones: the clear [l] occurs before vowels and the consonant /j/, whereas the dark [ɫ] / [lˠ] occurs before consonants, except /j/, and at the end of words.

  8. Phoneme - Wikipedia

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    A phoneme (/ ˈ f oʊ n iː m /) is any set of similar speech sounds that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—a smallest possible phonetic unit—that helps distinguish one word from another. [1] All languages contain phonemes (or the spatial-gestural equivalent in sign languages), and all spoken ...

  9. English-language vowel changes before historic /r/ - Wikipedia

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    In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by /r/ in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by /r/ that has been elided in non-rhotic dialects. Most of them involve the merging of vowel distinctions, so fewer vowel phonemes occur before /r/ than in other positions of a word.