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 last year, her first full school year teaching this method, Hurt said 80% of her first-grade class had aced a phonology test — nothing she’d seen before in previous years.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022
Simlish’s distinctive sounds, which Kauker likens to a Midwestern-Latin hybrid, comprise its phonetics and phonology.
From The Verge • Feb. 7, 2020
Any student of the phonology of early modern Japanese should turn to the far more reliable work of Father Rodriguez.
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.
Vocabulary lists containing phonology
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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The Mother Tongue
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phon (sound)
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