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Telugu. Telugu has 56 characters (Aksharamulu) including vowels (Achchulu) and consonants (Hallulu). Telugu uses eighteen vowels, each of which has both an independent form and a diacritic form used with consonants to create syllables. The language makes a distinction between short and long vowels.
In the artistic language Klingon, ghotI’ /ɣoˈtʰɪʔ/ is the proper word for "fish". [8] In "An Egg Grows in Gotham", a 1966 episode of the television series Batman, the villain Egghead uses "Ghoti Oeufs" as the name for his caviar business, and Batman explains the reference to Robin. [9] Ghoti Hook is a 1990s Christian punk band.
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.
A 92-character poem written in Classical Chinese, in which every syllable has the sound "shi" (in different tones) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese. List of common false etymologies of English words: Believe it or not, "crap" did not originate from Thomas Crapper. List of English words containing Q not followed by U: A Scrabbler's dream ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name. Other informative or qualifying ...
1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.
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.
Based on pitch levels sounded with their solfege syllables (a "musical language") although no knowledge of music is required to learn it. Communicationssprache. 1839. Joseph Schipfer. Based on French. Universalglot. 1868. Jean Pirro. An early a posteriori language, predating even Volapük.