- Dida language
Infobox language name Dida region Ivory Coast speakers 200,000 date 1993 ethnicity familycolor Niger Congo fam2 Atlantic Congo languages Atlantic Congo fam3 Kru languages Kru fam4 Eastern Kru languages Eastern lc1 gud ld1 Yocobou Dida lc2 dic ld2 Lakota Dida notice IPA Dida is a dialect cluster of the Kru languages Kru family spoken in Ivory Coast . Ethnologue divides Dida into two groups, Yocobou Dida 101,600 speakers in 1993 and Lakota Dida 93,800 speakers in 1993 , which are only marginally mutually intelligible and best considered separate languages. Each is dialectically diverse Yocobou Yokubwe consists of the Lozoua Lozwa and Divo dialects 7,100 and 94,500 speakers , and Lakota the Lakota L kota , Abou Abu , and Vata dialects. The prestige dialect is the Lozoua speech of the town of Guitry, C te d Ivoire Guitry . Yocobou is also known as Guitry, Yocoboue, Yokoubou , Gakpa, Goudou Gudu , and Kagou Kagwe . Lakota is also known as Dieko, Gabo, Satro, Gu bie Gebye , Brabori, and Ziki. Phonology The Dida lects have consonant and vowel inventories typical of the Eastern Kru languages. However, tone varies significantly between dialects, or at least between their descriptions. The following phonology is that of Abu Dida, from Miller 2005 . Vowels Dida has a ten vowel system nine vowels distinguished by tenseness , likely either pharyngealization or supra glottal phonation contraction of the larynx of the type described as retracted tongue root , plus an uncommon mid central vowel IPA . The non contracted vowels are IPA i e a o u , and the contracted vowels IPA e o . These could be analyzed as IPA i e o u , but here are transcribed with lower vowels to reflect their phonetic realization. There is no tense contrast with the low vowel. The formant s of the tense vowels show them to be open vowel lower than their non tense counterparts the formants of the highest tense vowels overlap the formants of the non tense mid vowels, but there is visible tensio ... more details
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- Tungusic languages
a complex pattern of vowel harmony , based on the parameters of vowel roundedness and vowel tenseness ... more details
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- Index of phonetics articles
Teeth Tenseness Tonal language Tone sandhi Tongue Trill consonant Triphthong U Unrounded vowel Uvula ... more details
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- Selkup language
Selkup IPA a , has no short counterpart. The tenseness contrast, an innovation of northern Selkup ... more details
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- Suspense
Otheruses Wiktionary suspense Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience s perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with Tenseness tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock , an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have or believe they have a superior perspective on events in the drama s hierarchy of knowledge, yet they are powerless to intervene to prevent it from happening. In broader definitions of suspense, this emotion arises when someone is aware of his lack of knowledge about the development of a meaningful event thus, suspense is a combination of anticipation and uncertainty dealing with the obscurity of the future. In terms of Narrative structure narrative expectations , it may be contrasted with wiktionary mystery mystery or curiosity and Surprise emotion surprise . Suspense could however be some small event in a person s life, such as a child anticipating an answer to a request they ve made, e.g., May I get the kitty? . Therefore, suspense comes in many different sizes, big and small. Aristotle According to Greek philosopher Aristotle in his book Poetics Aristotle Poetics , suspense is an important building block of literature Citation needed date February 2009 . In very broad terms, it consists of having some real danger looming and a ray of hope. The two common outcomes are the danger hitting, whereby the audience will feel sorrowful the hopes being realised, whereby the audience will first feel joy, then satisfaction. If there is no hope, the audience will feel wiktionary despair despair . Something other than the danger happening is a deus ex machina . the build up of tension. Most of the time in a narrative, play, ... more details
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- Zainichi Korean language
among plain, aspiration phonetics aspirated , and tenseness tense consonant s, such as IPA k , IPA ... more details
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- The White Hell of Pitz Palu
is convincing , remarking on a swift undercurrent of tenseness and anticipation that carries ... more details
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- Watching the Detectives (song)
with a big band arrangement, which he admitted was a desecration to people who love the tenseness ... more details
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- Frederica von Stade ? Mahler Songs
extent she compensates for this by the tenseness of her tone in the more turbulent passages, and in the last ... more details
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- The Odyssey (Smith)
the motif that opened the symphony itself. However, this familiarity subsides almost as quickly as the tenseness ... more details
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- Plosive
consonant implosive stops glottalic ingressive , or click consonant s lingual ingressive . Tenseness Further2 Tenseness A fortis and lenis fortis stop in the narrow sense is produced with more ... more details
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- Phonological history of English vowels
high front vowels Happy tensing Happy tensing is the process in which final tenseness lax IPA ... more details
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- Vowel
are the R colored vowels of American English and a few other languages. Tenseness checked vowels vs. free vowels Main Tenseness Tenseness is used to describe the opposition of tense vowels as in leap ... the other features of vowel quality, tenseness is only applicable to the few languages that have ... languages e.g. Spanish language Spanish cannot be described with respect to tenseness in any ... more details
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- Voiceless uvular fricative
Infobox IPA ipa number 142 decimal1 967 imagefile xsampa x2.png x sampa X kirshenbaum X The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonant al sound, used in some Speech communication spoken language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is IPA , or in broad transcription IPA x . The sound is represented by unicode x ex with underdot in Americanist phonetic notation . Features Features of the voiceless uvular fricative fricative uvular voiceless oral central articulation pulmonic Occurrence class wikitable colspan 2 Language Word International Phonetic Alphabet IPA Meaning Notes colspan 2 align center Abkhaz language Abkhaz align center lang ab Abkhaz alphabet align center IPA pa align center three Contrasts with labialization labialized and palatalization palatalized forms. See Abkhaz phonology colspan 2 align center Adyghe language Adyghe align center lang kbd Cyrl Cyrillic script align center Audio IPA Pxha.ogg p a align center wood colspan 2 colspan 2 align center Afrikaans language Afrikaans align center lang afr Latn Latin alphabet g oed align center IPA u t align center good Some dialects. align center Aleut language Aleut align center Atkan dialect align center lang ale Latn Latin alphabet hati x align center IPA h ti align center ten colspan 2 align center Armenian language Armenian align center lang am Armenian alphabet align center Audio IPA ot.ogg ot align center grass colspan 2 align center Avar language Avar align center lang av Cyrl Cyrillic script align center IPA or align center to lift Contrasts with a Tenseness tense form align center Berber language Berber align center Kabyle language Kabyle align center lang kab Kabyle alphabet a xx am align center IPA a am align center house colspan 2 align center Chilcotin language Chilcotin align center lang clc Latn Latin alphabet ? align center IPA la align center I made it align center Dutch language Dutch align center Hard and s ... more details
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- Viennese German
in Viennese German as in Bavarian dialects as well Fortis and lenis Consonant tenseness Voiceless fortis ... more details
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- Reduced vowels in English
2005 . Melbourne, The Macquarie Library Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876429 14 3 ref See also Schwa Tenseness Vowel ... more details
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- Sh?t?kai
of Shotokai. It focuses on suppleness and relaxation, as opposed to tenseness that generates force ... more details
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- Second language phonology
show their own repair mechanism for English language English minimal pairs that have Tenseness ... more details
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- Proto-Berber language
consonants had a homorganic consonants homorganic tenseness tense counterpart, with some excpetions ... more details
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- Syllable
linguistics moras . Syllables and vowel tenseness In most Germanic language s, tenseness lax vowels ... more details
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- Americanist phonetic notation
w style font size x small Tenseness tense i u style font size x small lax small I small small ... style font size x small Tenseness tense e colspan 2 o style font size x small lax colspan ... more details
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- Proto-Dené?Caucasian language
wide tenseness in PNC. As only fricatives and affricates can be tense in PNC, their absence makes tense ... wide tenseness is marked by presence of one or more long tense consonants in a morpheme. Starostin ... more details
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- Dutch orthography
and free vowels free checked , tenseness tense lax , open closed, long short. Although vowel length ... more details
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- Dan Muller
by toss of head, look of eyes, and tenseness or ease of muscles... The book is also full ... more details
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- Yale Romanization
h n m ng l Other symbols The letter q indicates Fortis and lenis Tenseness reinforcement which is not shown ... more details
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