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	Close back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its vowel height is close, which means the tongue is positioned as close as possible to the roof of the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel backness is back, which means the tongue is positioned as far back as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded and protrude, and the inner surfaces are exposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel (225 words)

	Close-mid back rounded vowel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its vowel height is close-mid, which means the tongue is positioned halfway between close vowel and a mid vowel.
		Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded.
		Many languages, such as Spanish and Japanese, have a mid back rounded vowel, which to speakers is clearly distinct from both the close-mid and open-mid vowels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel (324 words)

	Cardinal vowel - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For instance, the vowel of the English word "feet" can be described with reference to cardinal vowel 1, [i], which is the cardinal vowel closest to it.
		Vowel sound produced when the tongue is in an extreme position, either front or back, high or low.
		These eight vowels are known as the eight 'primary cardinal vowels', and vowels like these are common in the world's languages.
	cardinalvowel.quickseek.com (386 words)

	Near-close_near-front_rounded_vowel - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Its vowel height is near-close, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted.
		Its vowel backness is near-front, which means the tongue is positioned as in a front vowel, but slightly further back in the mouth.
		Its vowel roundedness is rounded, which means that the lips are rounded when it is spoken.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /information.asp?k=Near-close_near-front_rounded_vowel (177 words)

	Greek pronunciation
		Vowels When a word ending an a vowel is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, one of the vowels is removed.
		Close: a vowel where the tense part of the tongue is near to the roof of the mouth.
		Rounded: a vowel where the lips are rounded (by pulling in the corners of the mouth).
	www.derek.co.uk /language/greek-pr.htm (1425 words)

	Linguistique UNIL - The notion of semi-vowel
		There is a large degree of freedom in the articulation of open vowels and it is certainly possible to imagine vowels even more open than [a], for example (although such vowels would probably not be phonologically distinct from the "standard" open vowels of the fourth degree of aperture.
		On the other hand, the a vowel could not be much more close than the "standard" close vowels (first degree of aperture) and still be vocalic, rather than some kind of spirant or fricative consonant, depending on the degree of muscular tension.
		Additionally, the close vowels must have a certain minimum duration in order to be perceived as vocalic rather than consonantal (fricative or spirant).
	www.unil.ch /ling/page24569.html (311 words)

	English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second wave was of the Normans in the eleventh century, who spoke Norman (an oïl language closely related to French).
		Later, it was strongly influenced by the closely related North Germanic language Norse, spoken by the Vikings who settled mainly in the north-east and the east coast down to London (see Danelaw, Jórvík).
		During the 15th century, Middle English was transformed by the Great Vowel Shift, the spread of a standardised London-based dialect in government and administration, and the standardising effect of printing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_language (5225 words)

	O Online Research :: Information about O (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Greeks are thought to have come up with the innovation of vowels, and lacking a pharyngeal consonant, employed this letter as the Greek alphabet (Omicron) to represent the vowel /o/, a sound it maintained in Etruscan language and Latin.
		In English language, though, O has a short value which maps to Open back rounded vowel (Open back unrounded vowel in parts of North America), while the long value tends to a Diphthong of Close-mid back rounded vowel and Near-close near-back rounded vowel.
		Common digraphs include OO (inconsistently with the sound Near-close near-back rounded vowel or Close back rounded vowel), OI (usually a diphthong of Open-mid back rounded vowel and Close front unrounded vowel), as well as OA, OE, and OU with a variety of pronunciations depending on context.
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/O.html (742 words)

	The Tengwar for Esperanto
		Vowels may be represented either by "tehtar" (diacriticals or accent marks written above a preceding or following vowel) or by dedicated letters ("full-writing").
		The close back rounded vowel of English "crude".
		Most of the most common morphemes are closed; especially, the most common grammatical affixes (-et-, -ig-, -igh-, -ec-, -em-), and the commonest verb inflections (-as, -is, -os) are closed.
	www.catb.org /~esr/tengwar/esperanto-tengwar.html (1836 words)

	Near-close near-back rounded vowel at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The near-close near-back rounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
		Its vowel height is near-open, which means the tongue is positioned similarly to a close vowel, but slightly less constricted.
		Its vowel backness is near-back, which means the tongue is positioned as in a back vowel, but slightly further forward in the mouth.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Near-close_near-back_rounded_vowel.html (134 words)

	Hindi - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The beginnings of Hindi literature go back to the Prakrits that are a part of the classical Sanskrit plays.
		The consonant r occurring with the vowel i.
		Its inclusion among vowels is inherited from Sanskrit.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hindi (2020 words)

	english language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		After Scots and Frisian, the next closest relative is the modern Low Saxon language of the eastern Netherlands and northern Germany.
		Seaspeak and the related Airspeak and Policespeak, all based on restricted vocabularies, were designed by Edward Johnson in the 1980s to aid international cooperation and communication in specific areas.
		The North American variation of this sound is a rhotic vowel.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/english-language (2836 words)

	Front vowel - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A front vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
		The defining characteristic of a front vowel is that the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would be classified as a consonant.
		In some languages, the open front vowels do not pattern or group with the other front vowels in their phonologies.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Front_vowel (236 words)

	O - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Other languages use O for various values, usually back vowels which are at least partly open.
		Derived letters such as Ö and Ø have been created by some languages to distinguish values that were not present in Latin and Greek, particularly rounded front vowels.
		In the International phonetic alphabet, [o] represents the close-mid back rounded vowel.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/O (450 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		The second vowel is a rounded mid-upper front vowel, the same vowel that a Californian uses in rain, except that the lips are rounded.
		The vowel in "book" is a near close, near back, rounded vowel; that's certainly closer to the close, front, rounded vowel in the second syllable of "Bayeux" than the vowel I think most English speakers would take to be indicated in "yuh" - an open-mid, back, unrounded vowel (as in "huh").
		There is a tendency for English speakers who have not studied French to pronounce just about every unfamiliar written vowel or vowel combination they encounter in the most exotic way they can manage (however incorrect it might be), perhaps because the French /y/ vowel tends to stick in their minds.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=2&tid=34765126&numresponses=9&start=0 (1180 words)

	Greek language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among modern languages, Armenian seems to be the most closely related to it.
		The short e (ε in Greek orthography) is shown in the table as mid close vowel Template:IPA but it may have been nearer to Template:IPA.
		The main phonetic changes between Ancient and Modern Greek are a simplification in the vowel system and a change of some consonants to fricative values.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Greek_language (1977 words)

	O - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Greeks are thought to have come up with the innovation of vowels, and lacking a pharyngeal consonant, employed this letter as the Greek (O) to represent the vowel /o/, a sound it maintained in Etruscan and Latin.
		In Greek, a variation of the form later came to distinguish this long sound (Omega, meaning "large O") from the short o (Omicron, meaning "small o").
		Template:IPA]]), OI (usually a diphthong of [[Open-mid back rounded vowel
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/O (692 words)

	The Ultimate International Phonetic Alphabet for English Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The distinction between long and short vowels is more pronounced in British and Australian English than in American English (where many researchers do not transcribe any length for vowels at all).
		The English [o] and [e] vowels are realized as diphthongs, but they are included here with the plain vowels because the [ɪ] and [ʊ] are just off-glides.
		Diphthongs are vowel sounds that smoothly glide from one vowel to another.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/International_Phonetic_Alphabet_for_English (1324 words)

	English language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diagram of English vowels arranged in the vowel space
		It is the vowels that differ most from region to region.
		For them, roses and Rosa's are pronounced the same, and the symbol usually used is schwa Template:IPA.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/English_language (3340 words)

	Near-back vowel - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A near-back vowel is a type of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
		The defining characteristic of a near-back vowel is that the tongue is positioned as in a back vowel, but slightly further forward in the mouth.
		The near-back vowel identified by the International Phonetic Alphabet is:
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Near-back_vowel (126 words)

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		This symbol, the "back tick", must be distinguished attentively from the single quotation mark '.
		There is a Shanghainese tradition going back to the beginning of this century in which final glottal stop is written with a letter q, and based on this perhaps Q can substitute for glottal stop.
		It is suggested that in close transcription, a space be put between each segment of the original IPA, so that the characters representing diacritics do not become confused with the characters for segments proper.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.5/no.801-850/5-806 (1757 words)

	The Greek Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When followed by the vowel [e] it is pronounced nearly as in “kettle”, while when followed by [i] it is pronounced nearly as in “kill”.
		The tables for consonants and vowels in that page are very familiar to linguists, but you don’t need to be a linguist to understand it.
		When later the vowel space was flattened to its present five members, and no long vowels existed anymore, the diphthongs were transformed as the table above shows.
	www.cogsci.indiana.edu /farg/harry/lan/grkphon.htm (3985 words)

	English language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Some people dispute the status of Scots as a closely related separate language from English and consider it a group of English dialects.
		Scots has a long tradition as a separate written and spoken language.
		This is English's Consonantal System (including dialect sounds) using IPA symbols.
	english-language.ask.dyndns.dk (2983 words)

	More on Hindi
		The Devanagari script represents the sounds of spoken Hindi almost exactly, so that a person who knows the Devanagari letters can sound out a written Hindi text comprehensibly, even without knowing what the words mean.
		r r[I] ri The consonant r occurring with the vowel i.
		anuswara (.)and visarga (:) are often influded in list of vowel letters, but according to standardized form of Hindi, they are consonants.
	www.eduhistory.com /hindi.htm (1388 words)

	Easily confused phonetic symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first (the theta symbol) is in the Basic Greek block
		back open vowel, cardinal 5 (U+0251); front open vowel, cardinal 4 (ASCII)
		Except for the theta (which is in the Greek block), the correct symbols are in the IPA Extensions block.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/wells/confusables.htm (137 words)

	Talvezi e Zevone e Euransi
		short or long close front unrounded vowel [i] [i:]
		= short or long close back unrounded vowel
		{short or long close back unrounded vowel} sounds like
	www.sweb.cz /ls78/talvezi.htm (213 words)

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