Australian English (AuE) is a non-rhotic variety of English spoken by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, it is one of the most regionally homogeneous language varieties in the world. Australian English is notable for vowel length contrasts which are absent from most English dialects.. The Australian English vowels /ɪ/, /e/, /eː/ and /oː/ are noticeably closer (pronounced …

Vowel length contrasts with more than two phonemic levels are rare, and several hypothesized cases of three-level vowel length can be analysed without postulating this typologically unusual configuration. Estonian has three distinctive lengths, but the third is suprasegmental, as it has developed from the allophonic variation caused by now-deleted grammatical markers.For …

Inland Northern (American) English, also known in American linguistics as the Inland North or Great Lakes dialect, is an American English dialect spoken primarily by White Americans in a geographic band reaching from the major urban areas of Upstate New York westward along the Erie Canal and through much of the U.S. Great Lakes region.The most distinctive Inland …

Danish (/ ˈ d eɪ n ɪ ʃ / (); dansk pronounced (), dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ]) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in Denmark, as well as Greenland (about 10% of the population speak Danish as their first language owing to immigration), the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority …

Bengali (/ b ɛ n ˈ ɡ ɔː l i / ben-GAW-lee), generally known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bengali pronunciation: ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia.It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India.With approximately 300 million native …

It commonly represents the close front unrounded vowel /i/, like the pronunciation of i in "machine", or the near-close near-front unrounded vowel /ɪ/, like the pronunciation of i in "bin". History. Because the Cyrillic letter І was derived from the Greek letter Eta (Η η), the Cyrillic И had the shape of Η up to the 13th century. The name of ...

All vowel phonemes except for /ɪ/ and /ə/ can be both long (represented with ː ) and short. Phonologically, /a/ behaves both as a front or back vowel depending on the geographical area and vowel length. Diphthongs. The number of diphthongs in Scottish Gaelic depends to some extent on the dialect in question but most commonly, 9 or 10 are described: /ei, ɤi, ai, ui, iə, …

Sallaans (Dutch: Sallands; Low Saxon: Sallaands) is a collective term for the Westphalian dialects of the region Salland, in the province of Overijssel, as well as in minor parts of Gelderland and Drenthe in the Eastern Netherlands.In the Kop van Overijssel, the Stellingwarfs dialect is spoken.. A common term used by native speakers for their dialect, which is also used by Low Saxon …

The letter õ denotes /ɤ/, unrounded /o/, or a close-mid back unrounded vowel. ... In the standard language, the front vowels occur exclusively on the first or stressed syllable, although vowel harmony is still apparent in older texts. Grammar. Typologically, Estonian represents a transitional form from an agglutinating language to a fusional language. The canonical word …

Turkmen is a member of the East Oghuz branch of the Turkic family of languages; its closest relatives being Turkish and Azerbaijani, with which it shares a relatively high degree of mutual intelligibility.However, the closest language of Turkmen is considered Khorasani Turkic with which it share the eastern subbranch of Oghuz languages and Khorazm, spoken mainly in …