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Separation of a word into syllables
justification, making syllabification of shorter words often unnecessary. In some languages, the spoken syllables are also the basis of syllabification in writing
Syllabification
Punctuation mark used to join words
prefixes (see below). Hyphenation is also routinely used as part of syllabification in justified texts to avoid unsightly spacing (especially in columns
Hyphen
Unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
than stress (so-called quantitative rhythm or quantitative meter). Syllabification is the separation of a word into syllables, whether spoken or written
Syllable
Hebrew niqqud vowel sign
pataḥ, tsere and not segol, etc.[↑]. Furthermore, in the standard syllabification, the letter under which a shva naʻ is marked is grouped with the following
Shva
Orthography of the Estonian language
fo-tog-raaf, Petrograd is syllabified Pet-ro-grad or Pet-rog-rad. These syllabification rules are used for hyphenating words at the end of line, with the additional
Estonian_orthography
Polynesian language
Tongan (English pronunciation: /ˈtɒŋ(ɡ)ən/ TONG-(g)ən; lea fakatonga) is an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch native to the island nation
Tongan_language
Alphabet and spelling
Accentuation rules of Portuguese are somewhat different regarding syllabification than those of Spanish (English "continuous" is Portuguese contínuo
Portuguese_orthography
Japanese animation studio
transcription [zíːbek], which represents not the Japanese pronunciation using syllabification for Hepburn romanization but rather a presumed "English" pronunciation
Xebec_(studio)
Linguistic comparison
Word Indonesian syllabification (Malaysian) Malay syllabification problem ma.sa.lah mas.a.lah start mu.lai mu.la.i weather cu.a.ca cua.ca
Comparison of Indonesian and Standard Malay
Comparison_of_Indonesian_and_Standard_Malay
System for writing in Spanish
subsequent 2010 reform, though, declared that for orthographic and syllabification purposes such letter combinations should always be considered diphthongs
Spanish_orthography
Type of articulation
open syllables in Sri Lanka Malay. The syllabification of gambar must be ga.mbar then, and the syllabification of sambal sam.bal. An example of the unitary
Prenasalized_consonant
Consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative
Iskarous, McDonough & Whalen (2012). Elfner, Emily. "Contrastive Syllabification in Blackfoot" (PDF). Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference
Affricate
Salishan language of British Columbia
least in the cited recording) and kʷs 'rough' (one syllable or two). Syllabification of stop-fricative sequences may therefore be lexicalized or a prosodic
Nuxalk_language
Phonology of the English language
symbol used to show a division between syllables is the full stop ⟨.⟩. Syllabification is the process of dividing continuous speech into discrete syllables
English_phonology
Rai Coast language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people. The Sob language has been labelled
Sop_language
Aboriginal Australian language
urigœbaw 'sweet potato', lit. wœru-gabaw 'cord/string-cultivated yam' Syllabification occurred as in the modern dialects, with the addition of ř also attested
Kalaw_Lagaw_Ya
Metrical line of verses consisting of six feet
counted in syllabification, so for instance "cat" is a long syllable (—) if said in isolation, but "cat attack" in combination would be syllabified as short-short-long:
Hexameter
Direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
stato, Romanian scrie, spată, spirit, Ștefan and stat. In Italian, syllabification rules were preserved instead by vowel-final articles, thus feminine
Romance_languages
Official language of Mongolia
restrictions will be broken up by an epenthetic nonphonemic vowel in a syllabification that takes place from right to left. For instance, хоёр (khoyor) 'two'
Mongolian_language
France Internationale (in French), 22 November 2016. Scholvin, Vera. Syllabification in Language Contact between French and Vietnamese, 8th International
French_language_in_Vietnam
Indo-Aryan language of Sri Lanka
nasal alone and shorter than a sequence of nasal plus stop. The nasal is syllabified with the onset of the following syllable, which means that the moraic
Sinhala_language
Unicode character
31626 defined a C1 control code set defining 0x8D as an "Optional Syllabification Control (OSC)", a "print control character" for use marking syllable
Soft_hyphen
Yokutsan dialect cluster of California, US
Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Archangeli, Diana B. (1991). Syllabification and prosodic templates in Yawelmani. Natural Language and Linguistic
Valley_Yokuts
Sounds and pronunciation of the Italian language
s+C normally syllabifies as [s.C]: [ˈrɔs.po] rospo 'toad', [tras.ˈteː.ve.re] Trastevere (neighborhood of Rome). Phonetic syllabification of the cluster
Italian_phonology
Family of dialects/variants of the Arabic language
results in consonant clusters of great length, which are (more or less) syllabified according to a sonority hierarchy. For some subdialects, in practice
Varieties_of_Arabic
Typographical symbol
column above may not render correctly in all browsers. Punctuation Syllabification Dot (disambiguation) The "raised dot" spoken of in this context should
Interpunct
Class of speech sounds
an obstruent and a liquid consonant are often ambiguous as far as syllabification is concerned. In these cases, whether the two consonants are part of
Liquid_consonant
Consonant which either forms a syllable by itself or is the nucleus of a syllable
words like vatn ('water') [ʋa.tn̩] and botn ('bottom') [bɔ.tn̩]. This syllabification of alveolar nasals also appears in Norrland and Svealand dialects of
Syllabic_consonant
Phonological principle observed in many languages
107-136. Clements, G. N. (1990). The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. In J. Kingston and M. E. Beckman (eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology
Sonority_sequencing_principle
Mild chili pepper originating in Puebla, Mexico
from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved 2014-06-29. ancho; Syllabification: an·cho; Pronunciation: /ˈanCHō, ˈän/; (also ancho chili); Noun (plural
Poblano
reform of 1996, it was replaced by ⟨k-k⟩ for syllabification. The new spelling rules allow only syllabification of the ⟨ck⟩ as a whole: Old spelling: Säcke:
List_of_Latin-script_digraphs
Restaurant worker
original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2026. busser; Syllabification: bus·ser; Pronunciation: /ˈbəsər/; Noun; A person who clears tables
Busser
Group of consonants without a vowel in between
Early Reading Programs, Reading Rockets". 5 August 2013. J.C. Wells, Syllabification and allophony The extent of consonant clusters in Moroccan Arabic depends
Consonant_cluster
Combination of two adjacent vowel sounds
['baj.ta] and most speakers would syllabify it that way. A word such as 'voi' would instead be pronounced and syllabified as ['vo.i], yet again without a
Diphthong
Variant of the Latin alphabet
Most dictionaries give the syllabification su-biect, implying that i is a semivowel, but Dicționar de neologisme syllabifies it as su-bi-ect, with vocalic
Romanian_alphabet
Set of letters used to write a given language
syllable in Italian phonology: an experimental study of consonant cluster syllabification, definite article allomorphy and segment duration. New York: Routledge
Alphabet
vowel (schwa) does not need to be shown in a respelling so long as syllabification and syllable stress are shown. The following overlapping issues concerning
Pronunciation respelling for English
Pronunciation_respelling_for_English
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
vowel with no following consonants. For example, the word kataba, which syllabifies as ka-ta-ba, contains three short vowels and is made up of three short
Metre_(poetry)
Various systems of Latin pronunciation
pronunciation of Latin is not determined from classical vowel length, but from syllabification and stress. In 17th century Venice, soft c was /ts/: cf. Monteverdi's
Latin_regional_pronunciation
Central Mongolic language
implemented. It does not represent epenthetic vowels, and thus does not show syllabification. In Mongolia, Central Mongolian minority varieties have no status,
Oirat_language
Berber language of southwestern Morocco
syllable boundaries can be established through what they call "core syllabification". This works by associating a nucleus with an onset, to form a core
Shilha_language
Phonology of Hindi and Urdu
ambiguity in the syllabification of such words. For example, advait (अद्वैत ادویت) which is underlyingly /əd̪ʋɛːt̪/, may be syllabified as /ə.d̪ʋɛːt̪/,
Hindustani_phonology
Phonetic phenomenon in Uralic languages
in Proto-Finnic, and still counted as geminates for the purposes of syllabification. There remained for a period an intermediate quantity, half-long *-t̆t-
Consonant_gradation
Bantu language of Uganda
= consonant cluster, (V) = optional vowel This is reflected in the syllabification rule that in writing, words are always hyphenated after a vowel (when
Luganda
Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe and Mozambique
belong to the next syllable. For example, mangwanani ("morning") is syllabified as [ma.ᵑɡwa.na.ni]; Zimbabwe is [zi.ᵐba.ɓwe]. Shona is written with a
Shona_language
Algonquian language spoken in North America
Prominence" (PDF). Retrieved September 6, 2024. Elfner, Emily. "Contrastive Syllabification in Blackfoot" (PDF). Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference
Blackfoot_language
Romanized Arabic alphabet
languages. These clusters represents the deletion of short vowels and the syllabification of medial consonants in the phonology of Darija, a feature shared with
Arabizi
Musical notation for group singing
"The Good Old Songs" by C. H. Cayce) present the older seven-note syllabification of "do, re, mi, fa, so, la, si, do". In the seven-shape system invented
Shape_note
Writing system of Modern Greek
KEME (1983), the splitting of a Modern Greek word into syllables (syllabification) is governed by the following rules: C1: A single consonant between
Greek_orthography
Spelling conventions of the Finnish language
tule tänne "come here" instead of *tule ttänne or *tulet tänne. In syllabification, a long consonant is always regarded as having a syllable break in
Finnish_orthography
Linguistic emphasis on syllables or words
used by linguists and others to indicate the position of stress (and syllabification in some cases) when it is desirable to do so. Some of these are listed
Stress_(linguistics)
Hirt's law, but before the syllabification of resonants. While it is possible that the law occurred after the syllabification of resonants and only affected
Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
Glossary_of_sound_laws_in_the_Indo-European_languages
Oratorio by Joseph Haydn
Bible translation. Instead, it is so constructed that the word order, syllabification, and stress patterns are as close as possible to the English. Haydn
The_Creation_(Haydn)
Common occurrence of "e" as a silent letter in English, like in "like"
phonological feature, but was still phonetically present. A word like bide, syllabified bi.de and phonetically pronounced [biːdə], had one stressed, open, long
Silent_e
Muskogean language spoken in US
Ulrich, Charles H. (1987). "Choctaw verb grades and the nature of syllabification". In Bosch, A.; Need, B.; Schiller, E. (eds.). Papers from the 23rd
Choctaw_language
Pronunciation of 'r' across English dialects
those of some speakers in Jamaica and the Bahamas. In some accents, syllabification may interact with rhoticity and result in homophones for which non-rhotic
Rhoticity_in_English
Phonological system of the Japanese language
before a vowel or before /j/: Alternatively, in an analysis that treats syllabification as distinctive, the moraic nasal can be interpreted as an archiphoneme
Japanese_phonology
Language of Nigeria
Spreading to the verb root: 28% Spreading to the subject prefix: 7% Syllabification is a surface structure phenomenon and therefore unstable. Syllable
Mada_language
Variety of Arabic spoken in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia
Abaalkhail, Faisal (1998). "Syllabification and metrification in Urban Hijazi Arabic: between rules and constraints" (PDF). Syllabification and Metrification in
Hejazi_Arabic
English cleric and schoolmaster
Plain. Brief, and Pertinent Rules for the Judicious and Artificial Syllabification of all English Words, 1654. With an account of the author's plan for
Joseph_Brookbank
Endangered language of California, US
Note: Syllabification in these examples is from right to left. The following example is a more rare case in Karuk where the syllabification is from
Karuk_language
Phonetic phenomenon
1017/CBO9780511611759, ISBN 0-52128540-2 Wells, John C. (1990), "Syllabification and allophony", in Ramsaran, Susan (ed.), Studies in the pronunciation
Stress and vowel reduction in English
Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
Sounds and pronunciation of Portuguese
of the underlying phoneme, a phonetic [ɨ] can be elided, affecting syllabification and sometimes even producing a syllabic consonant; e.g. verdade /vɨɾˈda
Portuguese_phonology
Persian grammarian from Basra (c.760–796)
Edzard, L. "Sibawayhi's Observations on Assimilatory Processes and Re-Syllabification in the Light of Optimality Theory", in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic
Sibawayh
Vernacular Arabic spoken in Morocco
simplified; instead, consonants occurring between other consonants tend to syllabify, according to a sonorance hierarchy. Similarly, and unlike most other
Moroccan_Arabic
System of sounds of the Faroese language
akrar, vekja, bát, báts are long because the following consonant is syllabified as onset to the next syllable (or isn't allowed to form a coda because
Faroese_phonology
Ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages
however, affect dormiō (< *dr̥m-yé-ti), probably as a consequence of PIE syllabification laws. The sequence *gʷm̥y-, with a syllabic *m̥, yields veni-, whereas
Proto-Italic_language
Indigenous language of Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia
various descriptive work describing the phonemics, morphology, and syllabification in Ktunaxa. He also has two sources of transcriptions of speakers talking
Kutenai_language
Sound system of Spanish
After a consonant, the surface contrast between [ʝ] and [j] depends on syllabification, which in turn is largely predictable from morphology: the syllable
Spanish_phonology
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan
Research. 18 (3): 191–202. ISSN 1028-6640. Haroon-Ur-Rashid (2015b). Syllabification and stress patterns in Hindko (PhD). University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Hindko
Theory in historical linguistics
as they abide by the known rules of Proto-Indo-European obstruent syllabification. Further evidence regarding the pronunciation of the laryngeals may
Laryngeal_theory
Most widely spoken of all Sámi languages
voiceless stop, and differ only in the length of the first consonant and syllabification. In Eastern Finnmark, the stop is missing from the strong grade. rbm
Northern_Sámi
Sounds and pronunciation of the Swedish language
medial long consonants are ambisyllabic (that is, penna ('pen'), is syllabified as [ˈpɛ̂n.na]), all stressed syllables are thus "heavy". In unstressed
Swedish_phonology
Proto-Indo-European language sound law
100% of the time in the environments where his theory called for the syllabification of the *r. Appealing to the "formulaic" nature of oral poetry, especially
Sievers's_law
Issue when parsing sentence structure
Punctuation Sentence extraction Sentence spacing Speech segmentation Syllabification Text segmentation Translation memory Word divider E. Stamatatos; N
Sentence boundary disambiguation
Sentence_boundary_disambiguation
Phonology of the Turkish language
syllables, geminates are allowed only in the onset (hyphenation and syllabification in Turkish match except for this point; hyphenation splits the geminates)
Turkish_phonology
Canadian linguist
Kathleen Brannen. 2003. Phonetic evidence for phonological structure in syllabification. The Phonological Spectrum: Volume II: Suprasegmental structure. Edited
Heather_Goad
Ryukyuan dialect cluster of the Miyako Islands
or CV words; however, CCV and CVV words are found, as shown above. Syllabification is difficult to analyze, especially in words such as usnkai (us-nkai)
Miyakoan_language
Linguistic concept
followed by other consonants, due to the rules of Greek and Latin syllabification. In a consonant cluster, one consonant ends the preceding syllable
Syllable_weight
Proto-language of all the Slavic languages
syllable. Such a cluster was syllabified with the cluster entirely in the following syllable, contrary to the syllabification rules that are known to apply
Proto-Slavic_language
Mythological location
"Ichii" the Japanese term for "Yew", and "baru" perhaps a loose Japanese syllabification of the English word "valley." The same term was used in the 2012 anime
Ýdalir
Arabic variety spoken in the Levant
merges with "ē", when it is not near an emphatic or guttural consonant. Syllabification and phonotactics are complex, even within a single dialect. Speakers
Levantine_Arabic
Ancient Italic language
videtas tetis tokam alies esmen vepses vepeten The first line would be syllabified and read: po-stin vi-am vi-de-tas South Picene at MultiTree on the Linguist
South_Picene_language
Canadian linguist
Further research on syllabification and stress assignment has established a dichotomy between languages whose syllabification relies on the use of codas
Glyne_Piggott
Mongolic language of Northwest China
often the case, as in bositu [pʷosɪˈtʰu] (pregnant). /ɚ/ is always a syllabified as its own, as in ershi [ɚ.ʂɨ] (twenty), with the exception of one Arabic
Santa_language
Concept in linguistics
[ˈwiːn.nja], which may have been a means of resolving the "unnatural" syllabifications [l.j] and [n.j]. In any case every /Cj/ sequence other than /sj/ shows
Palatalization in the Romance languages
Palatalization_in_the_Romance_languages
contemporary corrections in slanting uncial script which employ a Greek syllabification similar to that used by Victor of Capua. There are 468 vellum folios
British Library, Harley MS 1775
British_Library,_Harley_MS_1775
Moving between spoken syllables
denoted /+/, /|/, /||/, and /#/ respectively. These correspond to syllabification and differences in intonation, single bar being a level pitch before
Juncture
Modern Western Aramaic language
1515/9783111447124. Eid, Ghattas & Ingo Plag. 2024. Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic. Lingua 297. 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua
Western_Neo-Aramaic
Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu
when followed by /ur/: [pʰura ~ pʙ̥ura] 'spit'. Nasals and liquids are syllabified in word-final CN, CL clusters and in medial CNC, CLC clusters: [ᵑɡitn̩tl̩]
Avava_language
Characteristic of the Finnish language
('priest/pastor' : 'priests/pastors'). The nominative singular pappi is syllabified into two syllables ([pɑp.pi]), but only the first is closed, thus gradation
Finnish_consonant_gradation
Yam language of Papua New Guinea
represent the epenthetic vowel because it can be predicted by the rules of syllabification. This leads to orthographic representations which untrained users might
Kómnzo_language
Modern Mandaean language from West Asia
segment in a word-final consonant cluster, the cluster is eliminated by syllabifying the sonorant. Neo-Mandaic does not tolerate clusters of the bilabial
Neo-Mandaic
Japanese dialect
position after a non-fricative consonant. The remaining consonant is syllabified into coda position, where it is reduced to a moraic obstruent /Q/ if
Kagoshima_dialect
Form of Spanish spoken in New Mexico, US
(1993). "Syllabic consonants in New Mexico Spanish: the geometry of syllabification" (PDF). Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 12: 109–127. OCLC 9368210
New_Mexican_Spanish
Native American language
University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7. Noske, Roland (1993). A Theory of Syllabification and Segmental Alternation. With studies on the phonology of French
Tonkawa_language
laryngeal, and containing a non-initial sonorant. This sonorant is always syllabified in the zero-grade, the infix is never syllabic. Examples: *linékʷti,
Proto-Indo-European_verbs
influenced by Spanish poetic traditions, specifically because its even syllabification (pares) closely aligns with European metric styles. Regardless of its
Dalit_(poem)
Tactile writing system for English
proper names, such as the titles of books. The convention in braille is to syllabify an intervocalic consonant with the preceding vowel if it is both stressed
English_Braille
consonant, s syllabifies with the following consonant: a.spa.ra.gus, pro.spec.tus, na.stur.ti.um, a.sphyc.si.a (asphyxia). S also syllabifies with a following
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin
Traditional_English_pronunciation_of_Latin
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Boy/Male
Greek
Defender of men; protector of mankind.
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Gift from God.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Highest
Surname or Lastname
English (Kent)
English (Kent) : unexplained. Perhaps a variant of French Obie. Compare Obey.Possibly also of German origin, an altered spelling of German Obbe, from a short form of the Germanic personal name Obbert.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Forester.
Boy/Male
Indian
Peace
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Andrea, AUNDRIA means "man; warrior."
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Truthful
Boy/Male
Indian
The Sun
Girl/Female
Indian
Lovely, Sweet girl
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n.
The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
n.
Same as Syllabication.