Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

Korean is copiously attested from the mid-15th century on in the phonetically precise Hangul system of writing ( ib.

The distinction between the latter two of these realizations, vocal cords somewhat separated along their length ( breathy voice ) and vocal cords together with the arytenoids making an opening ( whispery voice ), is phonetically relevant in White Hmong.

That is, phonetically they are consonants, but phonemically they behave as vowels.

This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, he said, the orthography of which is often less phonetically consistent than those of many other languages.

Vowels " o " and " u " appear to have not been phonetically distinguished based on the nature of the writing system, as only one symbol is used to cover both in loans from Greek ( e. g. Greek kōthōn > Etruscan qutun " pitcher ").

Epsilon ( uppercase, lowercase or lunate ; ) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a close-mid front unrounded vowel.

It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar Caladbolg, a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrowing of Caledfwlch from Irish Caladbolg has been considered unlikely by Rachel Bromwich and D. Simon Evans.

However, the form gēr ( from PGmc * gaizaz ) seems far too advanced phonetically for the 1st century, has a long vowel where a short one is expected, and the Latin form has a simplex-n -, not a geminate.

Spelling is but a small part of the differences between dialects of English, and may not even reflect dialect differences at all ( except in phonetically spelled dialogue ).

The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.

Lois McMaster Bujold ( Last name pronounced phonetically in American English as " Bu-Jold "; born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio ) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.

This class of sounds is difficult to characterise phonetically ; from a phonetic standpoint, there is no single articulatory correlate common to rhotic consonants.

Being " R-like " is an elusive and ambiguous concept phonetically and the same sounds that function as rhotics in some systems may pattern with fricatives, semivowels or even stops in others — for example, " tt " in American English " better " is often pronounced as alveolar tap, a rhotic consonant in many other languages.

Tamil does not distinguish phonologically between voiced and unvoiced consonants ; phonetically, voice is assigned depending on a consonant's position in a word.

** With the remaining vowels a vocalised is not absorbed, but remains phonetically present as a back vocoid in such a way that and are kept distinct.

Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.

Wojciech Kilar ( ( pronounced phonetically: Voy-cheh Kee-lahr ) ; born 17 July 1932 ) is a Polish classical and film music composer.

Trolling can be phonetically confused with trawling, a different method of fishing where a net ( trawl ) is drawn through the water instead of lines.

When these words have inflectional endings ( verbs / adjectives and adverbs ), the end of the stem is written phonetically:

Generally it is the final syllable containing the inflectional ending is written phonetically.

Boas ' student, the linguist Edward Sapir later noted that also English speakers pronounce sounds differently even when they think they are pronouncing the same sound, for example few English speakers realize that the sounds written with the letter < t > in the words " tick " and " stick " are phonetically different, the first being generally affricated and the other aspirated-a speaker of a language where this contrast is meaningful would instantly perceive them as different sounds and tend not to see them as different realizations of a single phoneme.

The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.

The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.

A similar amateurish characteristic is revealed in Adams' failure to check the accuracy and authenticity of his informational sources.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested.

What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Super-Set No. 2 is made up of similar exercises, but this time done with dumbbells, and using both `` moon '' and flat benches.

Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.

There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.

There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.

) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.

The life history of the alkali bee is similar to that of Andrena, but the first activity of the adults does not take place until summer, and the individuals hibernate in the prepupal stage.

In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.

This theorem is similar to the theorem of Kakutani that there exists a circumscribing cube around any closed, bounded convex set in Af.

In hunger stimulates man too the situation is very similar.

) These general facts are mentioned to make clear that the total situation in the two families is similar enough to warrant comparison.

It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.

For example, suppose another excess profits tax similar to prior laws is enacted, providing for carryover of excess profits credits.