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I with bowl (640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

languages. The letter was designed specifically to represent the non-front close vowel sounds IPA: [ɨ] and IPA: [ɯ]. Thus, this letter corresponds to the letter

Lisan ud-Dawat (5,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

meaning "why", changes to the close vowel /i/ in 'kim'. Similarly, in example xx, the close mid vowel changes to a close vowel when followed by the nasal

Abkhaz phonology (894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Abkhaz has only two distinctive vowels: an open vowel /a ~ ɑ/ and a close vowel /ɨ ~ ə/. These basic vowels have a wide range of allophones in different

Sotho phonology (5,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phonemes: maele ('wisdom') [mɑˈele] ho retla ('to dismantle') [hʊʀet͡ɬʼɑ] Close vowel raising is a process which occurs under much less common circumstances

Assibilation (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Proto-Bantu consonant *k was palatalised before a close or near-close vowel. Thus, the class 7 noun prefix *kɪ̀- appears in e.g. Zulu as isi-, Sotho

Nenets languages (764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

changes Raising of non-close vowels preceding a syllable with an original close vowel Loss of vowel distinctions in unstressed syllables Introduction of short/long

Heta (785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the so-called Claudian letters. It denoted the sonus medius, a short close vowel sound of a quality between i and u. In modern transcriptions and editions

Northwest Germanic (1,210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

singular of i-stems. Germanic a-mutation: stressed *u > *o before a non-close vowel, unless followed by a nasal and consonant. The West Germanic dialects

Great Vowel Shift (2,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Northern English had no back close-mid vowel /oː/ to shift, the back close vowel /uː/ did not diphthongise. Canaanite Shift Chain shift "The Chaos"—a

Kiliwa language (1,675 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a/, that can also be distinguished with vowel length /iː, uː, aː/. Close vowel sounds /i, u/ can range to mid vowel sounds as [e, o], and with vowel

Lausberg area (422 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

diphthongization when stressed and followed by a syllable containing a close vowel (namely /i/ or /u/), while the outcomes of /eː/ and /oː/ were not. Cf

Eastern Lombard dialects (3,038 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

harmony involving the feature of vowel height. When the stress falls on a close vowel (/i/ or /u/) the preceding vowels shift their height, becoming close

Epirote Greek (4,661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

difference between a long front mid-open vowel /ɛ:/ and a long front mid-close vowel /e:/, and an analogous difference between /ɔ:/ and /o:/. Because the

Cover symbols used in linguistics (75 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

central) rounded mid vowel. ø U A rounded vowel or backed vowel. ü A front (more rarely central) rounded close vowel. y V Any vowel. Ṽ Any nasal vowel.

Plains Cree language (4,884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extends to front open-mid [ɛ] and back open-mid [ʌ]. The long front close vowel ᐄ ī /iː/ is [iː]; ᐁ ē /eː/ is close-mid [eː]; ᐆ ō /oː/ is typically close-mid

Occitan language (10,551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Central Eastern Catalan) is unique in that Latin short e developed into a close vowel /e/ (é) and Latin long e developed into an open vowel /ɛ/ (è); that is

Lojban grammar (7,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mid vowel ɛ (e) e as in bet front close vowel i i as in machine back mid vowel o (ɔ) o as in open back close vowel u u as in moon central mid vowel ə

Yorkshire dialect (6,682 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

modern monophthong [oː], [ɔː] and [ɵː] (east riding) by the 1950s. If a close vowel precedes /l/, a schwa may be inserted. This gives [iəl] for /iːl/ and

Sotho concords (2,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noun prefix, but it exhibits concord-like behaviour. It is simply the close vowel i with the additional effect of nasalizing the verb to which it is attached

Phonological history of English (8,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Many echoes of i-mutation are still present in the modern language. Close-vowel loss: Loss of word-final /i/ and /u/ (also from earlier /oː/) except