After the 1900 script reform, which deemed hundreds of characters hentaigana, the hiragana syllabary consists of 48 base characters, of which two (ゐ and ゑ) are only used in some proper names: . 5 singular vowels: あ a, い i, う u, え e, お o 42 consonant–vowel unions へ is pronounced when used as a particle.; を is only used as a particle and in some names.

The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɔ . The IPA symbol is a turned letter c and both the symbol and the sound are commonly called "open-o". The name open-o represents the sound, in that it is like the …

Phonics is a method for teaching people how to read and write an alphabetic language (such as English, Arabic or Russian). It is done by demonstrating the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (), and the letters or groups of letters or syllables of the written language.In English, this is also known as the alphabetic principle or the Alphabetic code.

Chinese characters (traditional Chinese: 漢字; simplified Chinese: 汉字; pinyin: hànzì; Wade–Giles: han 4 tzŭ 4; Jyutping: hon3 zi6; lit. 'Han characters') are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as kanji.

The tilde (/ ˈ t ɪ l d eɪ,-d i,-d ə, ˈ t ɪ l d /) ˜ or ~, is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning "title" or "superscription". Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter; but for historical reasons, it is also used in standalone form within a variety of ...

Naming In English. Among linguists, Standard Chinese is known as Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin. Colloquially, it is imprecisely referred simply as Mandarin, even though that name may refer also to the Mandarin dialect group as a whole or its historic standard such as Imperial Mandarin. The name Modern Standard Mandarin is used to distinguish it from …

Tamil (/ ˈ t æ m ɪ l /; தமிழ் Tamiḻ, pronunciation (help · info)) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.Tamil is an official language of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the sovereign nations of Sri Lanka and Singapore, and the Indian territory of Puducherry.Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states ...

Phonemes. A phoneme of a language or dialect is an abstraction of a speech sound or of a group of different sounds which are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the initial "th" sound, the "r" sound, and a vowel sound. The phonemes in this and many other …

Etymology. The word telecommunication is a compound of the Greek prefix tele-(τῆλε), meaning distant, far off, or afar, and the Latin communicare, meaning to share.Its modern use is adapted from the French, because its written use was recorded in 1904 by the French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié. Communication was first used as an English word in the late 14th …

Interlingua (/ ɪ n t ər ˈ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə /; ISO 639 language codes ia, ina) is an international auxiliary language (IAL) developed between 1937 and 1951 by the American International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA). It ranks among the most widely used IALs and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL – in other words, those IALs whose vocabulary, grammar, and other …