sound shift in a sentence
Examples
- In northern dialects, however, sound shifts have changed many words so substantially that these rules no longer describe how words are pronounced.
- This sound shift is the one that progressed the farthest north among the consonant shifts that characterize High German and Middle German dialects.
- But Spanish also had " fungo ", which by its lack of the expected sound shift shows that it was borrowed directly from Latin.
- They are distinguished mainly by a few sound shifts ( notably affecting the pronunciation of original " z " and " h " ).
- Historically Proto-Berber only had two pharyngealized phonemes ( ), but modern Berber languages have borrowed others from Arabic and developed new ones through sound shifts.
- All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by subjection to the sound shifts of Grimm's law and Verner's law.
- Other ostensible irregularities in the sound shift, which we may notice in modern Standard German, are usually clarified by checking the etymology of an individual word.
- Tetserret is the only surviving Berber language to share a number of sound shifts with Ghadames; and " awdosh " ( ox ) recalls Hassaniya Arabic.
- Characteristic of Belgian said to include the retention of " p " after the sound shifts ( a trait that it shared with the Lusitanian language ).
- Especially sound shifts, the changing of vowels and consonants, are important, although grammar ( especially morphology ) and the lexicon ( vocabulary ) may also be significant.