#Vowel

Sami Jiries | سامي جِريِس

Brief note on a synchronic paradox in Levantine Arabic phonology: word-final long vowels are pronounced short unless there is a suffix in which case they're realized as long: /ramaː/ >

Nóra Veszprémi

The Hungarian language has a reputation for being extremely difficult, but in fact it is perfectly logical.This thread will prove how easy it really is. Just a few tweets, and

Usually when we talk about vowel harmony (or “disharmony”) in the Qur’anic readings, it has to do with pronouns. One interesting instance of vowel harmony which doesn’t have to do

Jarrah Sastrawan

Many Javanese words have a schwa in their first syllable: təlu (three), pəkan (market), dəmak (gift). In Old Jav texts these usually written as or , with the unwritten

Word-Specific Phenomena in the Realization of Vowel Categories. This LabPhon satellite workshop was postponed due to Covid-19. Talks are now downloadable, with Q&A and discussion held via Zoom next week.Registration

I had to do an assignment on English hypocoristics (that is, nicknames) in my grad-level phonology class, and it was really fascinating.https://twitter.com/CWWilkie/status/1313897026329939968 The most common way to make a short

Thai consonants ~~~~~~~{A Thread}~~~~~~~Thai Alphabet has 44 consonants which are grouped into 21 sounds. There are 3 classes: low, middle, high. This classes determines the tone. According to conditions. Let's

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peeg hopes she'll be alright.

restingfishface

Harry does not get enough credit for his lyrics. I know *those people* attack him for using repetition, but repetition is such a key tool in writing. Poetry works entirely

Adam Farris ['äː.dɐm. 'fäː.rɪs.]

There's far more to this glottalization scheme than I realized! After analyzing a series of songs, dialogues, and other miscellaneous recordings, I've been able to generalize the rule I formulated

Benjamin Suchard

As my co-presenter Jorik Groen and I both sadly couldn't attend #NACAL47, @PhDniX just did us the great favour of presenting on our behalf. Here's a thread with our slides.

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Amharic, a language spoken by at least 21M people in the world, and the official language of Ethiopia ㅡ a thread The writing system is called fidäl (ፊደል) in Ethiopian Semitic languages. Fidäl means

aiya lll pro-democracy!!!

HannibalsTeacup

why thai is one of the hardest languages to learn: a thread omg look at all these alphabets & vowels omg they are devided into 3 groups and each group

Dr Hyelander 🇦🇲 🌋

Ւ's tumble toward obscurity, a sad fate for such a fine letter.Ւ (hyun) is the 34th letter of the Armenian alphabet. Its independent role has essentially disappeared from the reformed

A few reminders:Gaelic =/= CelticOld English wealh, wealas (>Welsh, Wales) wasn't the word for foreignerEnglish has more vowel-less syllables than WelshWelsh is not the oldest language in Europe by any

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what's a really simple word you first read in a book and mispronounced in your head for years? nothing sesquipedalian, something short and sweet.I thought "eh" was pronounced like the