Concept
Consonne occlusive
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Contour (linguistics)
In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds that behave as single segments but make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another. Such sounds may be tones, vowels, or consonants. Many tone languages have contour tones, which move from one level to another. For example, Mandarin Chinese has four lexical tones. The high tone is level, without contour; the falling tone is a contour from high pitch to low; the rising tone a contour from mid pitch to high, and, when spoken in isolation, the low tone takes on a dipping contour, mid to low and then to high pitch.
Yanyuwa language
Yanyuwa (jaṉuwa) is the language of the Yanyuwa people of the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria outside Borroloola (Burrulula) in the Northern Territory, Australia. Yanyuwa, like many other Australian Aboriginal languages, is a highly agglutinative language with ergative-absolutive alignment, whose grammar is pervaded by a set of 16 noun classes whose agreements are complicated and numerous. Yanyuwa is a critically endangered language.
Nasal release
In phonetics, a nasal release is the release of a stop consonant into a nasal. Such sounds are transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet with superscript nasal letters, for example as [tn] in English catnip [ˈkætnnɪp]. In English words such as sudden in which historically the tongue made separate contacts with the alveolar ridge for the /d/ and /n/, [ˈsʌdən], many speakers today make only one contact. That is, the /d/ is released directly into the /n/: [ˈsʌdnn̩].
Occlusive
In phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract. The duration of the block is the occlusion of the consonant. An occlusive may refer to one or more of the following, depending on the author: Stops, or more precisely, oral stops—also known as plosives—are oral occlusives, where the occlusion of the vocal tract stops all airflow—oral and nasal. Examples in English are (voiced) b, d, ɡ and (voiceless) p, t, k.
Fidjien
vignette|Une locutrice du fidjien. Le fidjien est une langue appartenant à la famille des langues austronésiennes, au groupe des langues malayo-polynésiennes orientales et plus précisément aux langues océaniennes (sous-groupe des langues fidjiennes orientales). Il est parlé dans les Fidji, dont il est une des langues officielles depuis 1997, avec l'anglais et le hindi des Fidji. Le fidjien est une langue VOS. L'alphabet fidjien s'écrit au moyen de l'alphabet latin, ne contient pas de diacritiques ni de lettres modifiées.
Langues iroquoiennes
Les langues iroquoiennes sont une famille de langues parlées en Amérique du Nord. Elles incluent les langues de la Confédération iroquoise, ainsi que le cherokee.