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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 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 ...
Pronunciation [xwɛ̌jt͡sû ... English translations of some of them, along with the original Dungan text, are available in the book by S. Rimsky-Korsakoff (1991 ...
The independent pronouns are much like pronouns in English or Spanish, while the pronominal affixes are attached to words such as nouns, verbs, and statives and used for inflection. [19] [20] Like other Mayan languages, Qʼeqchiʼ has two sets of pronominal affixes, referred to as set A and set B. The following table provides all the pronominal ...
In parts of Spain, it is considered proper Spanish for the letter "z" and the combos "ci" and "ce" to be pronounced as [θ] (as in English thin), with the exceptions of Galicia, Andalusia/Andalucía and the Canary Islands. In most of Spanish-speaking Spain, the pronunciation of surnames ending in the letter "z" sound similar to the English "th".
Gramática de la lengua de maguindanao según se habla en el centro y en la costa sur de la isla de Mindanao [A grammar of the Maguindanao tongue according to the manner of speaking it in the interior and on the south coast of the island of Mindanao] (in Spanish). Manila: Tipografía «Amigos del País».
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ / tə-GAH-log, [4] native pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ⓘ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority, mostly as or through Filipino.