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Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to a word
syncope and elision. The word epenthesis comes from epi- 'in addition to' and en- 'in' and thesis 'putting'. Epenthesis may be divided into two types:
Epenthesis
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels
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
Vowel_hiatus
Celtic language indigenous to the island of Ireland
clitics, suffixes, root inflection, ending morphology, elision, sandhi, epenthesis, and assimilation; the beginning, core, and end of words can each change
Irish_language
Hiatus between prosodic units
consonants become ejectives pre-pausa. In Tapieté, epenthesis of [x] occurs when /ɨ/ is in pausa, while epenthesis of [ʔ] occurs when any other vowel is in pausa
Pausa
Variety of Portuguese language
Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡe(j)z bɾaziˈleɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil. It is spoken
Brazilian_Portuguese
Loss of a sound within a word
diachronic analyses of languages. Its opposite, whereby sounds are added, is epenthesis. Synchronic analysis studies linguistic phenomena at one moment of a language's
Syncope_(phonology)
Phonology of the Irish language
meanma /ˈmʲan̪ˠəmˠə/ ('mind'), ainmhí /ˈanʲəvʲiː/ ('animal'). There is no epenthesis, however, if the vowel preceding the cluster is long or a diphthong: fáirbre
Irish_phonology
Dialect of Cantonese spoken in Hong Kong
adaptation uses either deletion (the structural shortening of consonants) or epenthesis (the insertion of dummy vowels) to successfully resolve these phonotactically
Hong_Kong_Cantonese
Southern Valley Yokuts dialect of America
Yawelmani Yokuts (also spelled Yowlumne and Yauelmani) is an endangered dialect of Southern Valley Yokuts historically spoken by the Yokuts living along
Yawelmani_Yokuts
Constructed language created by Nick Farmer for The Expanse
Belter Creole, also simply known as Belter (Belter Creole: lang belta), is a constructed language developed by linguist Nick Farmer for The Expanse television
Belter_Creole
Sound system of Spanish
Slim is pronounced /esˈlim/). While Spanish words undergo word-initial epenthesis, cognates in Latin and Italian do not: Lat. status /ˈsta.tus/ ('state')
Spanish_phonology
Sounds and pronunciation of Portuguese
[ɐðɨˈβɛɾsu], but in southern Portugal there is often no epenthesis, [psikuluˈʒiɐ], [ɐdˈvɛɾsu]. Epenthesis at the end of a word does not normally occur in Portugal
Portuguese_phonology
Uralic languages of northern Russia
from Russian. Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nenets крупа (krupa) > xurupa "cereals" класс (klass) > xalas "class" Vowel epenthesis from Russian to Nganasan
Samoyedic_languages
Gallo-Romance language
Steele) "A constraint-based analysis of intraspeaker variation: Vocalic epenthesis in Vimeu Picard". In Teresa Satterfield, Christina Tortora, & Diana Cresti
Picard_language
Class of speech sounds
/ˈkɜːnel/ pronunciation with the rhotic r, which is absent in writing. Epenthesis, or the addition of sounds, is common in environments where liquids are
Liquid_consonant
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Ukrainian_phonology
Spelling and punctuation of the Irish language
The main exception to this is ⟨ng⟩ which is mainly used for /ŋ/ or /ɲ/. Epenthesis does not occur after long vowels and diphthongs, e.g. téarma /tʲeːɾˠmˠə/
Irish_orthography
Dialect of Arabic spoken in Qatar
consonants are present in the stem, though the resulting vowel may be backed. Epenthesis (the insertion of a vowel to break up consonant clusters) is a regular
Urban_Qatari_Arabic
Indo-European language native to the Indian subcontinent
uyyāna Nasals sometimes assimilate to a preceding stop (in other cases epenthesis occurs) Examples: agni (fire) → aggi, ātman (self) → atta, prāpnoti →
Pali
Word consisting of two words
Retrieved 3 October 2013. Rosen, Eric. "Japanese loanword accentuation: epenthesis and foot form interacting through edge-interior alignment∗" (PDF). University
Portmanteau
English-based creole of Solomon Islands
Pijin (Solomonese Pidgin) is a language spoken in Solomon Islands. It is closely related to Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea and Bislama of Vanuatu; the three
Pijin
Group of dialects of Bengali
eastern Bengali notably preserves the Middle Bengali tendency of a form of "epenthesis" (Bengali: অপিনিহিতি, romanized: ôpinihiti), which is more accurately
Eastern_Bengali_dialects
North Germanic language
disyllabic words due to incorporation of the definite article and vowel epenthesis during the Viking Age and early Middle Ages. However, the precise dating
Old_Norse
speech may involve the elision of the /d/ from /ndz/ rather than epenthesis in /nz/. Epenthesis of a stop between a nasal and a fricative can also occur in
Phonological history of English consonant clusters
Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters
Yam language of Papua New Guinea
one epenthetic vowel (ə̆). Komnzo phonology exhibits widespread vowel epenthesis. The epenthetic vowel is usually a short schwa (ə̆), sometimes a short
Kómnzo_language
Argentine football manager (born 1978)
original (PDF) on 10 June 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019. cf. Spanish phonology#Epenthesis cf. Rioplatense Spanish#Phonology https://www.fifa
Lionel_Scaloni
Way a word or a language is spoken
described using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Elision Elocution Epenthesis Help:IPA/English — the principal key used in Wikipedia articles to transcribe
Pronunciation
Large language family of Africa and West Asia
central vowels are often inserted to break up consonant clusters (a form of epenthesis). Various Semitic, Cushitic, Berber, and Chadic languages, including Arabic
Afroasiatic_languages
Ancient Greek ν appended to some grammatical forms
row (hiatus) and to create a long syllable in poetic meter as a form of epenthesis. Movable nu may appear at the end of certain forms of verbs, nouns, and
Movable_nu
Sepik language of Papua New Guinea
intervocalically and can be syllabified to two distinct syllables without requiring epenthesis. Two identical nasals, trills or laterals (/mm nn rr ll/) degeminate when
Pouye_language
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Scottish Gaelic phonology and orthography
Scottish_Gaelic_phonology_and_orthography
Arawakan language spoken in Peru
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Itô, Junko. (1989). A prosodic theory of epenthesis. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 7, 217–259. Levin, Juliette. (1985)
Axininca_language
Micronesian language of the Marshall Islands
/lʲtˠ/ and /lˠtˠ/ undergo epenthesis. Liquid-nasal clusters undergo nasal assimilation. Obstruent-nasal clusters undergo epenthesis (if coronal) or nasal
Marshallese_language
Subdivision of the Slavic language group
groups pj, bj, mj, vj developed into (soft) consonant forms without the epenthesis of l, as in Polish kupię ("I shall buy"; compare Russian куплю); A tendency
West_Slavic_languages
Sound change converting an alveolar consonant to a rhotic consonant
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Rhotacism
Phonology of the Esperanto language
because /ij/ and /uŭ/ do not occur in Esperanto (though more general epenthesis could cause confusion between gea and geja, as mentioned above). However
Esperanto_phonology
Native American language of Arizona, US
non-syllabic consonants never surface without epenthesis. Sequences of two consonants sometimes cause epenthesis, depending on the consonants in question.
Maricopa_language
Process of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
apocopated in final position after nasals: lamb, long /læm/, /lɒŋ ~ lɔːŋ/. Epenthesis (also known as anaptyxis): The introduction of a sound between two adjacent
Sound_change
initial i- in these names, including Istanbul's, is largely secondary epenthesis to break up syllabic consonant clusters, prohibited by the phonotactic
Names_of_Istanbul
County of England
Day", was instigated in 2017. The Suffolk dialect is very distinctive. Epenthesis and yod-dropping is common, along with non-conjugation of verbs. The county's
Suffolk
Adding sounds to the end of a word
(/ˌpærəˈɡoʊdʒi/) is the addition of a sound to the end of a word. It is a type of epenthesis. Paragoge is most often linked with the nativization of loanwords. It
Paragoge
stressed u preceded by n lengthens and nasalizes, producing a following n (epenthesis). Lat genuculus > *genuclus > western genuchi > Rom. genunchi 'knee' Lat
History of the Romanian language
History_of_the_Romanian_language
Pleasantness associated with the sounds of words or parts of words
displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Cacofonix Dissimilation Epenthesis – Phonological process involving the addition of one or more sounds to
Phonaesthetics
Official language of Mongolia
Anastasia Mukhanova Karlsson. "Vowels in Mongolian speech: deletions and epenthesis". Retrieved 2014-07-26. Svantesson et al. (2005): 62–72. Svantesson et
Mongolian_language
Phenomenon in linguistics
consonant Consonant harmony Crasis Deletion (phonology) Dissimilation Epenthesis Labialization Palatalization Pharyngealization Secondary articulation
Assimilation_(phonology)
Type of affix
used in their original sense, are not libfixes. Libfixes often utilise epenthesis, as in the example of -holism and -holic which are joined with consonant-final
Libfix
Bantu language of northwest Angola
palatalized to [ʃ], [ʒ] and [ɲ], respectively, before [i]. There may be an epenthesis of [g] after /ŋ/ in word medial positions, thus creating a phonetic cluster
Kimbundu
Pronouncing "l" sounds as vowels
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
L-vocalization
Off-beat rhythm
Music portal Anacrusis Counting (music) Syncopation (dance) Syncope and epenthesis, analogous linguistic concepts where vocal rhythm causes the loss or addition
Syncopation
Simplified language
syllable codas Reduction of consonant clusters or breaking them with epenthesis Elimination of aspiration or sound changes Monophthongization is common
Pidgin
Luso-Goan musical tradition
an extra vowel sound either in the middle of the words or at the end epenthesis. Thus the word dista is lengthened to disota and sanddlear into sanddilear
Mando_(music)
Phonology of Oromo language
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Oromo_phonology
Evolution of the Portuguese language
Portuguese ontem [ˈõtẽj̃] (EP, BP, AP) ~ [ˈõtɐ̃j̃] (LEP) (yesterday). Epenthesis—the insertion of a sound to break up a sequence of vowels: arēnam [äˈreːnãˑ]
History_of_Portuguese
Group of Indo-Aryan languages
north-western India, are the tendency to shorten long vowels, the practice of epenthesis, or the modification of a vowel by the one which follows in the next syllable
Northern_Indo-Aryan_languages
Direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
Latin, either by dropping them (apocope) or adding a vowel after them (epenthesis). Many final consonants were rare, occurring only in certain prepositions
Romance_languages
Sounds and pronunciation of Egyptian Arabic
them, but stresses that this does not happen with normal speech tempo. Epenthesis An epenthetic vowel is automatically inserted after the second of three
Egyptian_Arabic_phonology
Romance language
knows') [ˈsa.bi] and juro ('I swear') [ˈʒu.ɾu]. BP frequently employs vowel epenthesis to break up consonant clusters, typically inserting a high front vowel
Portuguese_language
Phone used to pronounce a single phoneme
[ˈsʌmpθɪŋ] even though it is orthographically not indicated. This is known as epenthesis. However, the following vowel must be unstressed. Velar stops /k, ɡ/ become
Allophone
Karluk Turkic language
tends to simplify phonemic consonant clusters by means of elision and epenthesis. The Karluk language started to be written with the Perso-Arabic script
Uyghur_language
Classical Greek phrase meaning 'come and take [them]'
The presence of word-initial /b/ in βλώσκω can be explained through its epenthesis between μ and λ, with the former dropping. The aorist participle is used
Molon_labe
Historical group of Indo-Aryan languages from 600 BCE to 1000 CE
(deletion if the output would violate phonotactics) or were split by vowel epenthesis. Initially, intervocalic aspirated stops spirantised. Later, all other
Middle_Indo-Aryan_languages
Alternate phonetic realization of a morpheme
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Alternation_(linguistics)
Continuous sequence of sounds in spoken language
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Connected_speech
Lingua franca spoken in the Valley of Mexico in the 16th century
clusters are only allowed word-medially, Nahuatl uses processes of both epenthesis (usually of /i/) and deletion to deal with this constraint. For such purposes
Classical_Nahuatl
Insertion of a sound at the beginning of a word
or e before sp of speak, but there is before sp in Spanish". Apheresis Epenthesis "prothesis". Oxford English Dictionary (online ed.). Oxford University
Prothesis_(linguistics)
Austroasiatic language
either contrastive or non-contrastive aspiration (see above). Slight vowel epenthesis occurs in the clusters consisting of a plosive followed by /ʔ/, /b/, /d/
Khmer_language
Dialect of Brazilian Portuguese
cases of rhotic epenthesis (debuta → debruta), sometimes it also happens because of hypercorrection, (inclusive → inclusivel), epenthesis also occurs more
Caipira_dialect
Omission of sounds in words or phrases
(with lenition of f- to h- to ∅, dissimilation of -mn- to -mr- and then epenthesis of -mr- to -mbr-) In addition, speakers often employ crasis or elision
Elision
Arabic variety spoken in Egypt
grew" → (makbírʃ). The addition of /-ʃ/ may result in vowel shortening or epenthesis: A final long vowel preceding a single consonant shortens: (ixtáːr) "he
Egyptian_Arabic
Archaic form of the Hebrew language
if אֵ were being inserted. See Blau (2010:83) It is evident that this epenthesis must have been a late phenomenon, since a short vowel preceding a guttural
Biblical_Hebrew
Consonant sound change
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Lenition
Percussion using voice
called a voiced alveolar trill with labiodental articulation. Similarly, epenthesis is the sound created when beatboxers sing or rap and make percussion sounds
Beatboxing
Process of words becoming part of a language grammar
do') and tendré (not *teneré, 'I'll have'; the loss of e followed by epenthesis of d is especially common)—and even regular forms (in Italian, the change
Grammaticalization
Incorrect or inaccurate pronunciation of a word
sound, while in the UK, the initial "h" is aspirated. [citation needed] Epenthesis: The addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially to the interior
Mispronunciation
Consonantal sound
[i, ĩ, j] is not actually produced) and other instances of [i] (e.g. epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise. See Portuguese phonology Most dialects tchau
Voiceless postalveolar affricate
Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate
Surname list
-es (or -ez), hence, the spelling Ximenis (or the variant with vowel epenthesis, Eiximinis or Eximenis). Ximenes is found most commonly in Portugal, and
Jiménez_(surname)
Somali dialect
intervocalic allophone of /ɡ/. Maay Maay exhibits significant amounts of epenthesis, inserting central or high-central vowels to break up consonant clusters
Maay_Maay
Parish in Canada
inhabitants. Confusion is sometimes caused by other uses of the name: epenthesis of Grand Manan Island to Grand Manan; the village of Grand Manan; the
Grand Manan Parish, New Brunswick
Grand_Manan_Parish,_New_Brunswick
Variety of English language
Spanish, Portuguese and Persian speakers). This is usually dealt with by epenthesis. e.g., ⟨school⟩ /isˈkuːl/. Many Indians with lower exposure to English
Indian_English
Simplification of consonant clusters in certain environments
strategies include cluster reduction (e.g., string /stɹɪŋ/ → /sɹɪŋ/) and epenthesis (e.g., /stɹɪŋ/ → /stəɹɪŋ/), which describes vowel additions within, or
Cluster_reduction
Consonantal sound
(including when the vowel is elided) and other instances of [i] (e.g. epenthesis), marginal sound otherwise. Most dialects jambalaya [d͡ʒɐ̃bɐˈlajɐ] 'jambalaya'
Voiced_postalveolar_affricate
Pre-Roman civilization of Etruria (9th–1st century BC)
turskum is *Tursci, which would, through metathesis and a word-initial epenthesis, be likely to lead to the form, E-trus-ci. As for the original meaning
Etruscan_civilization
athematic, Bibliotheca, bodega, boutique, deem, doom, enthesis, enthetic, epenthesis, epenthetic, epitheca, epithet, hypothec, hypothesis, monothematic, nomothetic
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/T
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/T
Situational pronunciation of /r/ in non-rhotic varieties of English
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Linking_and_intrusive_R
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Tone_sandhi
Grammatical change of vowels in Indo-European languages
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Indo-European_ablaut
Ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages
occurred at an early date. In Latin, the suffix *-klom was later modified by epenthesis, producing -culum (e.g. curriculum, "a race"). This development, however
Proto-Italic_language
Process by which monophthongs become diphthongs and triphthongs
is an unconditioned sound change, whereas other scholars speak about epenthesis or umlaut. Inherited Old Norse stressed long vowels and short a became
Vowel_breaking
Wakashan language
consonants are devoiced word-finally but surface faithfully with following epenthesis when they are word-internal. Glottalized consonants remain glottalized
Kwakʼwala
Polynesian language spoken in Easter Island
have been adapted to the phonology of Rapa Nui. In particular, vowel epenthesis is used to break consonant clusters (normally forbidden in Rapa Nui) and
Rapa_Nui_language
Loss of word-final sounds
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Apocope
Pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Liaison_(French)
Variety of Spanish language
words have gone through a process of deletion, vowel assimilation, or epenthesis to make it easier for the speaker to be understood. Salvadoran Caliche
Salvadoran_Spanish
Ojibwe dialect of Canada
(1994) found the following phonological properties of Western Ojibwa: t-Epenthesis: a /t/ is inserted between the personal prefix and the vowel when a stem
Western_Ojibwa_language
Production of a sound while the velum is lowered
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Nasalization
Popular song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
"Wembley" may be sung with either melisma on the first syllable, or a schwa epenthesis (often respelled "Wemberley" or "Wemberlee"). Other venues than Wembley
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Que_Sera,_Sera_(Whatever_Will_Be,_Will_Be)
Phonological process
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Final-obstruent_devoicing
Constructed human language based on predicate logic
consonant clusters, there is the option of adding vowels between them (epenthesis), as long as they differ sufficiently from the phonological vowels and
Lojban
Variety of Scottish English
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The epenthesis ("helping vowel"), which is used in some consonant combinations in Gaelic
Highland_English
Phonetic phenomenon in Uralic languages
Assibilation Spirantization L-vocalization Debuccalization Fortition Epenthesis Prothesis Paragoge Unpacking Vowel breaking Elision Apheresis Syncope
Consonant_gradation
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Rock Fortress; Stone Camp
Girl/Female
Latin
Siren.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Of elegant, Statue, Soft, Joy, Jewel, To gaze, Look
Girl/Female
Tamil
Radha
Boy/Male
Danish, German, Swedish
Victorious Protector
Girl/Female
Hebrew, Hindu, Indian, Swedish
Adornment; Ornament
Boy/Male
Hindu
Troop or covery
Girl/Female
Muslim
Bird in Arabic
Girl/Female
Muslim
The beginning, The principle, The breathe of life
Girl/Female
Tamil
A firefly
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
EPENTHESIS
n.
The insertion of a letter or a sound in the body of a word; as, the b in "nimble" from AS. n/mol.
pl.
of Epenthesis