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Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
It is heard in the Fury and Hecla Strait of northern Canada. It is being investigated by Canadian military authorities. [ 13] The Forest Grove Sound, a sound heard in Forest Grove, Oregon during February 2016. [ 14] Moodus noises, strange sounds heard in Moodus, Connecticut, later attributed to microquakes.
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett ( IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt], S-Z) or scharfes S ( IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], "sharp S"), represents the / s / phoneme in Standard German when following long vowels and diphthongs. The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of s ( Es) and z ( Zett) in German.
Thorn or þorn ( Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia, but it was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives.
A constructed language based around musical notes. The native name of the indigenous Squamish language of British Columbia, which uses the number 7 as a letter. The opposite of the previously mentioned Ithkuil. Inspired by minimalism and Taoist philosophy, this constructed language has only 137 regularly used words.
Faux Cyrillic, pseudo-Cyrillic, pseudo-Russian[ 1] or faux Russian typography is the use of Cyrillic letters in Latin text, usually to evoke the Soviet Union or Russia, though it may be used in other contexts as well. It is a common Western trope used in book covers, film titles, comic book lettering, artwork for computer games, or product ...
Eritrean Sign Language. creole. Eswatini Sign Language. Irish, British, & local. Ethiopian sign languages. 1 million signers of an unknown number of languages. Francophone African Sign Language. ASL & spoken French. The development of ASL in Francophone West Africa.
Spectrogram of ʊ Sagittal section of a vocal tract pronouncing the IPA sound ʊ. Note that a wavy glottis in this diagram indicates a voiced sound. The near-close near-back rounded vowel, or near-high near-back rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The IPA symbol that represents this sound is ʊ . It is ...