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  2. Kubutz and shuruk - Wikipedia

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    The kubutz sign is represented by three diagonal dots " ֻ" underneath a letter.. The shuruk is the letter vav with a dot in the middle and to the left of it. The dot is identical to the grammatically different signs dagesh and mappiq, but in a fully vocalized text it is practically impossible to confuse them: shuruk itself is a vowel sign, so if the letter before the vav doesn't have its own ...

  3. List of English words containing Q not followed by U

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    For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.

  4. Synaeresis - Wikipedia

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    For example, the French word louer, which means ‘to praise,’ is typically pronounced as [lwe] according to transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet. [11] That pronunciation reduces the [u] vowel to a [w], or a glide sound, when pronounced in conjunction with the [e] vowel sound. In this example, the standard pronunciation ...

  5. English words without vowels - Wikipedia

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    In modern Welsh, "W" is simply a single letter which often represents a vowel sound. Thus words borrowed from Welsh may use w this way, such as: The crwth [6] (pronounced /ˈkrʊθ/ or /ˈkruːθ/, also spelled cruth in English) is a Welsh musical instrument similar to the violin. [7] He intricately rhymes, to the music of crwth and pibgorn. [8]

  6. Lexical set - Wikipedia

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    A lexical set is a group of words that share a particular vowel or consonant sound. A phoneme is a basic unit of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another. Most commonly, following the work of phonetician John C. Wells, a lexical set is a class of words in a language that share a certain vowel phoneme.

  7. Table of vowels - Wikipedia

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    Sound sample ⓘ Close back rounded vowel: close: back: rounded: 308: u u u Sound sample ⓘ Near-close front unrounded vowel: near-close: front: unrounded: 319: ɪ ɪ I Sound sample ⓘ Near-close front rounded vowel: near-close: front: rounded: 320: ʏ ʏ Y Sound sample ⓘ Near-close back rounded vowel: near-close: back: rounded ...

  8. Lists of dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.

  9. Epenthesis - Wikipedia

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    A vowel sound that is nonexistent in Lojban (usually /ɪ/ as in ' hit ') is added between two consonants to make the word easier to pronounce. Despite altering the phonetics of a word, the use of buffering is completely ignored by grammar. Also, the vowel sound used must not be confused with any existing Lojban vowel.