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This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. Sz is...

The retroflex ejective fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

High Alemannic is a branch of Alemannic German spoken in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg and in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Intelligibility...

En with descender (Ң ң; italics: Ң ң) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter En (Н н) by adding a descender to...

Ka with descender (Қ қ; italics: Қ қ), is a letter of the Cyrillic script used in a number of non-Slavic languages spoken in the territory of the former...

The Korean manual alphabet is used by the Deaf in South Korea who speak Korean Sign Language. It is a one-handed alphabet that mimics the shapes of the...

Bashkir Qa or Bashkir Ka (Ҡ ҡ; italics: Ҡ ҡ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It is formed from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) with the top extending...

Short I with tail (Ҋ ҋ; italics: Ҋ ҋ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its is derived from the Cyrillic letter Short I (Й й) by adding a tail to the...

Ka with vertical stroke (Ҝ ҝ; italics: Ҝ ҝ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. Its form is derived from the Cyrillic letter Ka (К к) by the addition of...

The following is an overview of the grammar of the Slovene language. As in most other Slavic languages, changes to consonants and vowels often occur between...

In grammar, the term weak (originally coined in German: schwach) is used in opposition to the term strong (stark) to designate a conjugation or declension...

Tō-on or tōon (唐音, English: /ˈtoʊ.ɒn/ TOH-on; Japanese pronunciation: [toꜜːoɴ], "Tang sound"), are Japanese kanji readings imported from China by Zen monks...

The horn (Vietnamese: dấu móc or dấu râu) is a diacritic mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the Vietnamese alphabet to give...

The following tables of consonants and vowels (jamo) of the Korean alphabet (Hangul) display (in blue) the basic forms in the first row and their derivatives...

Irish syntax is rather different from that of most Indo-European languages, especially because of its VSO word order. The normal word order in an Irish...

In grammar, the intransitive case (abbreviated INTR), also denominated passive case or patient case, is a grammatical case used in some languages to mark...

In grammar, the sociative case is a grammatical case in the Hungarian, Tamil, and Malayalam[citation needed] languages that can express the person in whose...

In grammar, the instrumental-comitative case combines the instrumental case and the comitative case at the same time, functioning similar to the English...

The subessive case (abbreviated SUBE) is a grammatical case indicating location under or below something. It occurs in Northeast Caucasian languages like...

In historical linguistics, metaphony is a class of sound change in which one vowel in a word is influenced by another in a process of assimilation. The...