phonology
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When designing the phonology of the Yautja language, Watkins took into account the aliens’ physiology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2025
"If you think of Sindarin - one of the two main Elvish languages - it's very much based on the phonology and grammar, at points, of Welsh," she said.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2025
By the end of the first full year of teaching this way, Hurt said 80 percent of her class had aced a phonology test — a rate she hadn’t seen before.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Simlish’s distinctive sounds, which Kauker likens to a Midwestern-Latin hybrid, comprise its phonetics and phonology.
From The Verge ● Feb. 7, 2020
The differences between Luther’s usage and that of the chancery, in phonology and inflection, are small; still he shows, in his writings subsequent to 1524, a somewhat more pronounced tendency towards Middle German.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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