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Korean consonants have three principal positional allophones: initial, medial (voiced), and final (checked). The initial form is found at the beginning of phonological words. The medial form is found in voiced environments, intervocalically (immediately between vowels), and after a voiced consonant such as n or l. The final form is found in ...
With 19 possible initial consonants, 21 possible medial (one- or two-letter) vowels, and 28 possible final consonants (of which one corresponds to the case of no final consonant), there are a total of 19 × 21 × 28 = 11,172 theoretically possible "Korean syllable letters" (Korean: 글자; RR: geulja; lit.
In Catalan ch represents final sound. In the past it was widely used, but nowadays it is only present in some surnames (e.g. Domènech, Albiach). In medieval Catalan it was occasionally used to represent sound. In native French words, ch represents [ʃ] as in chanson (song).
A dotted final form is used in some words of chinese origin. ᠊ᠨ᠊ — — ᠊ᠩ᠊ ᠊ᠩ: ng : The medial form is used before consonants. — ᡴ᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠊ ᠊ᡴ: k : The undotted medial form is used before a, o, ū; dotted form before consonants. ᠊ᡴ᠋᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠌᠊ ᠊ᡴ᠋: k : Initial and medial forms are used before e, i ...
IMFI is an acronym for "Initial, Medial, Final, Isolated", a writing system in which each character has four different potential shapes: initial – used for the first character in a word; medial – used in the middle of a word; final – used for the last character in a word; isolated – used for single-letter words
In the syllable structure of Sinitic languages, the onset is replaced with an initial, and a semivowel or liquid forms another segment, called the medial. These four segments are grouped into two slightly different components: [example needed] Initial ι : Optional onset, excluding semivowels; Final φ : Medial, nucleus, and final consonant [7]
This may occur, particularly with high vowels i, u, ü, when the unstressed syllable begins with a fricative f, h, sh, r, x, s or an aspirated p, t, k, q, ch, c consonant; for example, 豆腐 dòufu ("tofu") may be said as dòu-f, and 问题 wènti ("question") as wèn-t (the remaining initial consonant is pronounced as a syllabic consonant ...
Initial consonant mutation is also found in Indonesian or Malay, in Nivkh, in Southern Paiute and in several West African languages such as Fula. The Nilotic language Dholuo, spoken in Kenya, shows mutation of stem-final consonants, as does English to a small extent. Mutation of initial, medial and final consonants is found in Modern Hebrew.