For instance, nearly all Australian languages lack fricatives ; a large percentage of the world's languages, for example Mandarin Chinese, lack voiced stops as phonemes such as,, and.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

For most of Chinese history, the capital has been within the Mandarin area, making these dialects very influential.

For instance, 翼 ( yì, wing ) is unambiguous in written Chinese, but has over 75 homophones in spoken Mandarin.

For example, 印刷 " print " is yìnshuā in Mandarin Chinese and inswae ( 인쇄 ) in Korean, but it is pronounced insue in Shanghainese ( a Wu Chinese dialect ).

For example, 女 (" woman ") is nǚ in Mandarin Chinese and nyeo ( 녀 ) in Korean.

For example, English is related to other Indo-European languages and Mandarin is related to other Sino-Tibetan languages.

For example, the varieties of Mandarin spoken in all three northeastern Chinese provinces are mutually intelligible, but in the province of Fujian, where the use of the Min variety is dominant, the same variety has to be divided into at least 5 different subdivisions since the subdivisions are all mutually unintelligible to one another.

For example, in 1962, out of a total of 120 films produced, only seven were made in Mandarin ; the rest were made in Taiwanese.

For example, 葡萄 ( grape ) is pronounced " budo " in Shanghainese and " budō " (< " budau ") in Japanese ( preserving the voiced consonants and ), but " pútáo " in Mandarin.

For example, Mandarin tiě ( 铁, ' iron ') corresponds to Japanese tetsu ( 鉄 ).

For example, Mandarin Fó ( 佛, Buddha ) corresponds to Japanese butsu ( 仏 ); both reflect Early Middle Chinese / bjut / from a still older form / but /.

For example, Middle Chinese " ten " ( Standard Mandarin " shí ", Cantonese ) was borrowed as Old Japanese / zipu /.

Chinese singer Sammi Cheng has released and performed covers of several of her hits such as Bakkwo ( became Mei Fei Se Wu in Mandarin / Sat For 煞科-Finale in Cantonese ), Wa became " Duk Ga See Chung-Exclusive Trial Singing " and Nuh ( 너, You ), which became Tian Yi Wu Feng.

For Chinese-speaking audiences, the film was dubbed into Cantonese and Mandarin, and had significant changes, such as the inclusion of a fight in a green house with Casanova Wong and a different opening and closing credits sequence, featuring a new theme song, plus a couple of minor scenes.

For instance, in Mandarin Chinese, the general noun classifier for humans is ge ( 個 ), and it is used for counting humans, whatever they are called:

For example, the characters use the Mandarin Chinese " Ni Hao " for greeting each other, the Spanish " palabra " for " password " and " el fuera " for " outside " ( exiled ), the Basque word " agur " for hello, and Khoda Hafez being Farsi for goodbye.

For example, immigrants to Hong Kong, where the autonomous government promotes education in Cantonese, generally lose their native language ( including Mandarin, but not English ) in favor of Cantonese.

For instance, Mandarin Chinese has replaced Singaporean Hokkien as the lingua franca of Chinese community in Singapore today.

For a time in the early 1960s the school ( renamed the Joint Services School for Linguists ) was based at RAF Tangmere near Chichester in Sussex, where Mandarin, Polish and Czech in addition to Russian were taught.

For example, English is related to other Indo-European languages and more specifically to the Germanic family ( West Germanic branch ), while Mandarin Chinese is related to many other Sino-Tibetan languages.

For instance, inflectional morphology is not going to help in languages that lack inflectional morphology almost entirely such as Mandarin, and even with English, inflectional morphology does not help much, since English largely lacks morphological case.

There is some confusion over the exact definition of “ Z-variant .” For example, in an Internet draft ( of RFC 3743 ) dated 2002, one finds bù “ no ” ( U + 4E0D 不 ) and ( U + F967 不 ) described as “ font variants ,” the term “ Z-variant ” being apparently reserved for interlanguage pairs such as the Mandarin Chinese tù “ rabbit ” ( U + 5154 兔 ) and the Japanese to “ rabbit ” ( U + 514E 兎 ).

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

For his part, Scotty had resigned as parliamentary speaker in April 2004 in protest of the Nauru's financial crisis which included the commencement of receivership proceedings by corporate giant, General Electric.

For instance, Japanese barabara is used to reflect an object's state of disarray or separation, and shiiin is the onomatopoetic form of absolute silence ( used at the time an English speaker might expect to hear the sound of crickets chirping or a pin dropping in a silent room, or someone coughing ).

For large assemblies, the speaker will usually speak with the aid of a public address system or microphone and loudspeaker.

For example, a speaker asks, " Would you like to meet me for coffee?

For example, the hearer might have the ability to pass the salt when asked to do so by a speaker who is at the same table, but not have the ability to pass the salt to a speaker who is asking the hearer to pass the salt during a telephone conversation.

For most bands and most small-to mid-size venues ( e. g., nightclubs and bars ), standard bass guitar speaker enclosures or keyboard amplifiers will provide sufficient sound pressure levels for onstage monitoring. Since a regular electric bass has a low " E " ( 41 Hz ) as its lowest note, most standard bass guitar cabinets are only designed with a range that goes down to about 40 Hz.

Abbott is a frequent public speaker, newspaper contributor and TV performer, appearing on programmes such as Have I Got News For You, Celebrity Come Dine with Me and Cash in the Celebrity Attic.

For instance, in the Papyrus of Ani, the name " Ani " appears at the top or bottom of a column, or immediately following a rubric introducing him as the speaker of a block of text ; the name appears in a different handwriting to the rest of the manuscript, and in some places is mis-spelt or omitted entirely.

For example, linguist Eric Lenneberg used second language to mean a language consciously acquired or used by its speaker after puberty.

For example, to say " I am an eagle " in the old language means that the speaker becomes an eagle, so that the statement is no longer false.

For example, when they are very happy, to express approval, to praise a speaker, or as a battle cry, during times of extreme stress.

For example, a fluent bilingual speaker addressing another, like bilingual speaker might engage in code switching with the sentence: I'm sorry I cannot attend next week's meeting porque tengo una obligación de negocios en Boston, pero espero que I'll be back for the meeting the week after.

For example, a Chinese speaker may not recognize that 麒麟 ( giraffe ) is pronounced qi lin, a Japanese speaker may not recognize that 麒麟 ( giraffe ) is pronounced kirin.

For many years he was a familiar speaker at various political and veterans ' functions ; an indefatigable traveler, he was known to do it by car as often as not.

For example, typical dynamic speaker drivers can have moving masses of tens or hundreds of grams whereas an electrostatic membrane only weighs a few milligrams, several times less than the very lightest of electrodynamic tweeters.

For example, the speaker may have the simple intention to offer something, to wish or permit something, or just to apologize, and not to manipulate their conversational partner.

For example, a speaker who is too terse is often interpreted as lacking ease or grace, because, in oral and sign language, sentences are spontaneously created without the benefit of editing.

For example, a child who is a bilingual Spanish-English speaker might speak Spanish at home and English in class, but Spanish at recess.

For example, a successful salesperson hoping to become a motivational speaker on selling may pay a ghostwriter to write a book on sales techniques.