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2. A Way with Words - Wikipedia

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   A Way with Words. A Way with Words is an American weekly public radio program discussing the use of language (mainly American and Canadian English, with other languages earning more occasional mention) in everyday life, along with linguistics, lexicology and folk etymology from a pool of listener questions from weekly callers into the program ...

3. Transcription (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Transcription (linguistics) Transcription in the linguistic sense is the systematic representation of spoken language in written form. The source can either be utterances ( speech or sign language) or preexisting text in another writing system . Transcription should not be confused with translation, which means representing the meaning of text ...

4. Runic transliteration and transcription - Wikipedia

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   Runic transliteration and transcription are part of analysing a runic inscription which involves transliteration of the runes into Latin letters, transcription into a normalized spelling in the language of the inscription, and translation of the inscription into a modern language. There is a long-standing practice of formatting transliterations ...

5. Diphthong - Wikipedia

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   A diphthong ( / ˈdɪfθɒŋ, ˈdɪp -/ DIF-thong, DIP-; [1] from Ancient Greek δίφθογγος (díphthongos) 'two sounds', from δίς (dís) 'twice', and φθόγγος (phthóngos) 'sound'), also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. [2] Technically, a diphthong ...

6. Phonemic orthography - Wikipedia

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   For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond consistently to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words).

7. Intonation (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Intonation is distinct from tone, the phenomenon where pitch is used to distinguish words (as in Mandarin) or to mark grammatical features (as in Kinyarwanda). Transcription [ edit ] Most transcription conventions have been devised for describing one particular accent or language, and the specific conventions therefore need to be explained in ...

8. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia

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   Transliteration is not the same as transcription. Transliteration is the representation of written symbols in a consistent way in a different writing system, while transcription indicates the pronunciation of a text. For the case of Ancient Egyptian, precise details of the phonology are not known completely.

9. Transliteration - Wikipedia

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   A transcription distinguishes them, but this is no requirement for a transliteration that renders both as eu . The initial letter 'h' reflecting the historical rough breathing in words such as Ellēnikē should logically be omitted in transcription from Koine Greek on, [3] and from transliteration from 1982 on , but it is nonetheless frequently ...