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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. Pronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect. A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the area in which they grew up, the area in which they now live, if they have a speech or voice disorder, their ethnic group, their social class, or their education. Linguistic terminologySyllables are counted as units of sound (phones) that they use in their language. The branch of linguistics which studies these units of sound is phonetics. Phones which play the same role are grouped together into classes called phonemes; the study of these is phonemics or phonematics or phonology. Phones as components of articulation are usually described using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How can you know the way Chinese Characters are pronounced like? Q. Don't Chinese Characters have some phonetic symbols in them to say how they are pronounced? Asked by Crystal - Tue Oct 7 06:17:40 2008 - - 10 Answers - 0 Comments A. All of these answers are misleading, except for TaeaT's which is vague. Contrary to popular beliefs, many Chinese characters have a phonetic component. Most Chinese characters are formed by a radical, or meaning component, added to a phonetic, or sound component. For example, check out these three characters: Notice that all three characters are the same on the right: . All of these characters are pronounced the same in Mandarin (qing in pinyin) but with different tones. In these examples, the left side of the character is the radical. by itself means "blue-green". The first one has the heart radical and means "feeling" whereas the second one has the language radical and means "invite". Now check out this character: . It's… [cont.] Answered by desiderata - Tue Oct 7 16:32:14 2008 How exactly is this name pronounced? Q. I am having a baby girl in November and I want to name her Maya (Mya), but I want to change the spelling to Mayah. Is that pronounced the same? Asked by dia.mond281 - Tue Jul 15 21:30:57 2008 - - 21 Answers - 0 Comments A. I would think so...if I saw it spelled that way, I would still pronounce it Maya. Answered by ~*Felicity's Mommy*~ - Tue Jul 15 21:37:41 2008 Why is English written one way and pronounced another way?
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