consonant sounds
81English language — Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific… …
82English as a foreign or second language — ESL redirects here. For other uses, see ESL (disambiguation). An immigrant makes an American breakfast, aided by instructional materials from the YMCA, 1918. English as a second language (ESL), English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) and… …
83Pig Latin — is an English language game in which the initial consonant sound of an English word is placed at the end and an ay is affixed (Ex.: banana would yield anana bay), to both obfuscate the encoding and to indicate for the intended recipient the… …
84Vietnamese language — Vietnamese Tiếng Việt Pronunciation [tiə̌ŋ viə̀ˀt] (Northern) [tiə̌n jiə̀k] (Southern) Spoken in …
85Final obstruent devoicing — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
86alliteration — /euh lit euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration), as in from stem to stern, or with a vowel sound that may differ… …
87consonance — /kon seuh neuhns/, n. 1. accord or agreement. 2. correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds. 3. Music. a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of repose. Cf. dissonance (def. 2). See illus. under… …
88NuEnglish — (from New English) is a proposed form of written English spelled phonemically. That is, NuEnglish has a perfect one to one correspondence between the spoken units (phonemes) and the written units (graphemes). It is intended to replace traditional …
89Shiksha — See Shiksha (NGO) for the Indian non governmental organization. : See Shiksa for the Yiddish slang word. Shiksha (IAST IAST|śikṣā) is one of the six Vedangas, treating the traditional Hindu science of phonetics and phonology of Sanskrit. Its aim… …
90Abjad — For the traditional ordering of the letters of the Arabic alphabet, see Abjad numerals. An abjad is a type of writing system in which each symbol always or usually[1] stands for a consonant; the reader must supply the appropriate vowel. It is a… …
