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Pronunciation / Transliteration: dhvani
"प्रत्येक भाषा में अलग-अलग प्रकार की वाक् ध्वनि होती है।"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
An individual unit of sound produced by the vocal organs in spoken human language.
"Phonetics is the scientific study of every physical speech-sound produced by humans." - 2
A phone or speech segment that functions to distinguish meaning in a spoken language.
"Infants learn to differentiate between subtle speech-sound variations during their first year of life."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term is a combination of 'speech', deriving from Old English 'sprǣc' (meaning speech, discourse, or language), and 'sound', deriving from Old French 'son' and Latin 'sonus'. Together as a compound noun, it emerged in modern linguistics to designate distinct acoustic units produced by the human vocal tract for verbal communication.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Speech-sound" is said worldwide
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son du langage
Transliteration: /sɔ̃ dy lɑ̃.ɡaʒ/
"Chaque langue possède son propre inventaire de sons du langage."
Sprachlaut
Transliteration: /ˈʃpʁaːxˌlaʊ̯t/
"Ein Sprachlaut wird durch die Artikulationsorgane erzeugt."
suono del linguaggio
Transliteration: /ˈswɔ.no del linˈɡwaː.tjo/
"La fonetica studia la natura fisica di ogni suono del linguaggio."
sonido del habla
Transliteration: /soˈni.ðo ðel ˈa.βla/
"Cada sonido del habla se produce mediante el tracto vocal."
som da fala
Transliteration: /sõ da ˈfa.lɐ/
"O som da fala é analisado detalhadamente pela fonética."
ध्वनि
Transliteration: dhvani
"प्रत्येक भाषा में अलग-अलग प्रकार की वाक् ध्वनि होती है।"
语音
Transliteration: yǔ yīn
"语音学是研究人类语言声音的学科。"
말소리
Transliteration: malsori
"음성학은 인간의 말소리를 과학적으로 연구합니다."
音声
Transliteration: onsei
"音声学は言語の音響的性質を研究します。"
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