• referred to as elision. The word epenthesis comes from epi- 'in addition to' and en- 'in' and thesis 'putting'. Epenthesis may be divided into two types:...
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  • extra consonant sound. A consonant sound may be added between vowels (epenthesis) to prevent hiatus. That is most often a semivowel or a glottal, but all...
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    Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into...
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  • diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite, whereby sounds are added, is epenthesis. Synchronic analysis studies linguistic phenomena at one moment of a language's...
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    from Russian. Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nenets крупа (krupa) > xurupa "cereals" класс (klass) > xalas "class" Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nganasan...
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  • Pijin (or Solomons Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the...
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  • Belter Creole, also simply known as Belter (Belter Creole: lang belta), is a constructed language developed by the linguist and polyglot Nick Farmer for...
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    This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
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    meanma /ˈmʲan̪ˠəmˠə/ ('mind'), ainmhí /ˈanʲəvʲiː/ ('animal'). There is no epenthesis, however, if the vowel preceding the cluster is long or a diphthong: fáirbre...
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  • apocopated in final position after nasals: lamb, long /læm/, /lɒŋ ~ lɔːŋ/. Epenthesis (also known as anaptyxis): The introduction of a sound between two adjacent...
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