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On these pages, a number of the members of Wordwizard are building a public domain dictionary of terms related to the study of language and literature. Do feel free to contact us or use our CMS system when you find anything that's missing (there's bound to be plenty to start with!).

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velar

A speech sound is velar if ...

verb

This is a stub ...

vocative

In some languages which use ...

vocoid

See vowel (sense 1). ...

voicing

Vibration of the vocal cords ...

vowel

The term 'vowel' has three dis ...

vowel gradation

See ablaut . ...

vowel harmony

Some languages only permit cer ...

vowel quadrilateral

(Also cardinal vowel diagram ...

vowel space

The vowel quadrilateral has ...

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