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101Yat (New Orleans) — Yat refers to a unique collection of dialects of English spoken in New Orleans, Louisiana. The term also refers to those people who speak with a Yat accent. The name comes from the common use amongst said people of the greeting, Where y at?… …
102Ă — (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian language and Vietnamese language orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid central unrounded vowel, while in… …
103Spanish Language and Literature — • As a medium of literary expression Spanish asserted itself first in the twelfth century: it had been six or seven centuries in the process of evolution out of Latin Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Spanish Language and Literature …
104grave accent — grave′ ac′cent [[t]greɪv, grɑv[/t]] n. ling. a mark ( ) placed over a vowel esp. to indicate that the vowel is open or lax, as French è, has distinct syllabic value, as in English belovèd, or that the vowel or the syllable it is in has secondary… …
105Phonation — has slightly different meanings depending on the subfield of phonetics. Among some phoneticians, phonation is the process by which the vocal folds produce certain sounds through quasi periodic vibration. This is the definition used among those… …
106Appalachian English — is a common name for the Southern Midland dialect of American English. This dialect is spoken in Northeastern Georgia , Northwestern South Carolina, Southern West Virginia, Southwestern Virginia, Southern Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, the Upper Potomac …
107Belizean Kriol language — Infobox Language name=Belizean Kriol states=Belize, United States speakers=First language: 125,051 Second language: 227,140 familycolor=Creole fam1=Creole language fam2=English Creole fam3=Atlantic fam4=Western iso2= none iso3=bzj… …
108Proto-Dené-Caucasian language — Proto Dené Caucasian is the reconstructed hypothetical common ancestor of the Dené Caucasian languages, a proposed language superfamily to which Basque, North Caucasian, Burushaski, Sino Tibetan, Yeniseian, Na Dené and possibly also other… …
109Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate — t͡ʃ Image …
110wide´ness — wide «wyd», adjective, wid|er, wid|est, adverb, noun. –adj. 1. filling more space from side to side than the usual thing of the same sort; not narrow; broad: »a wide street, a wide hall …
