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  2. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some conventional examples: The following is a list of some conventional examples:

  3. Hyperforeignism - Wikipedia

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    The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /). In Spanish, such an accent would shift the stress and change the meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish).

  4. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...

  5. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...

  6. New Mexican Spanish - Wikipedia

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    The sound represented by ll has merged with that represented by y , and both are now pronounced like an approximant , like the English y sound in "yes". [ 74 ] [ 77 ] Before the Pueblo Revolt and subsequent reconquest of New Mexico, New Mexican Spanish actually distinguished the ll and y sounds, but dialect leveling resulted in the spread of ...

  7. Dubbing - Wikipedia

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    The dialogue writer's role is to make the translation sound natural in the target language, and to make the translation sound like a credible dialogue instead of merely a translated text. [ 12 ] Another task of dialogue writers is to check whether a translation matches an on-screen character's mouth movements or not, by reading aloud ...

  8. It's a Small World: The Animated Series - Wikipedia

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    Wazoh teaches the Spanish words for up and down, arriba and abajo. One Golden Sun - Wazoh notices a flock of birds fly by the kids, and they land in Morocco . They meet a boy who is studying the country's wildlife, and soon discover a young pink rhinoceros , who the boy says doesn't belong on the Coast, prompting a search for its home.

  9. List of Spanish words of Indo-Aryan origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from Indo-Aryan languages.It is further divided into words that come from Persian, Romani and Sanskrit.Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language.