Initially, the Greek alphabet used theentire Phoenician alphabet, a total of22letters. Because the phonetic system of ancient Greek and Phoenician is different, the pronunciation marked by some letters needs to be adjusted. Among them, six consonants have been transformed into vowels. ‘Aleph’ rep...
the ability, in certain languages, to express a complex idea or entire sentence in a single word, as the imperative “Stop!” — holophrasm, n. — holophrastic, adj. homonymy the state or quality of a given word’s having the same spelling and the same sound or pronunciation as anothe...
Hi! If you’re seeing this, you’ve probably purchased my Chinese (Cantonese) Pronunciation Trainer (if not, you can get it at the store). I’m going to be using this page to keep track of changes, to provide instructions for repairing problems, and to have a central place to keep ...
Written Chinese is not phonetic. From the way a word is pronounced, you can’t tell how it’s written, and from the way it’s written, you can’t tell how it’s pronounced. Depending on the context, the same written word’s meaning or pronunciation can change a lot. You simply must...
Any two random people in the Philippines have an 80% probability of growing up speaking a different language, making the Philippines one of the world’s most linguistically diverse countries. In fact, the Philippines celebrates its linguistic diversity for an entire month in August (known as Buwan...
“It was a mixed bag of Israelites, that migrated down here. They moved..majority..moved from North Africa, Morocco, passed through Mali, Northern Nigeria, entire length of Nigeria, then Igboland. In not very very ancient times, the traffic between Africa south of the Sahara, and north of...
The Dialects of Chinese The Semitic and Other Afroasiatic Languages The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian "Knowing" Words in Indo-European Languages Greek, Sanskrit, and Closely Related Languages The Spread of Indo-European and Turkish Peoples off the Steppe ...
the same combination of letters might represent different phonemes: in English, “ough” has several pronunciations, including /ʌf/, /ɒf/, and /ɔː/ the same phoneme can be represented using different combinations of letters: in English, /aʊ/ can be spelled as o, ou, or ow...
If you have ever studied languages that use an entirely different alphabet, such as Russian or Japanese, you’ll know that typing in a foreign language requires practice. Often, this is because you have to relearn the entire keyboard layout which is different from the standard QWERTY that you...
This self-teaching game helps to learn productively correct pronunciation and spelling through visual and audio support. For the correct organization of the lea…