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Yod Chanthawong
Yod or YOD may refer to: Language * Yod (sound), the /j/ glide—as in the English word ''yous initial phoneme * Yodh, the tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets People * Father Yod (1922–1975), American esoteric spiritual leader and restaurateur * Leslie Daiken (1912–1964; nicknamed ''Yod''), Irish writer, editor and activist Other uses * Yod (astrology), an aspect formation * CFB Cold Lake, a Royal Canadian Air Force base in Alberta (IATA code: YOD) * Year of the Dolphin, a 2007 United Nations Environment Programme observance * Yods, characters in the 1999 '' Outcast'' video game See also * Ecstatic Yod (label), a record label run by music critic Byron Coley * Yad, the Jewish religious pointing device * Yod-dropping and yod-coalescence The phonological history of the English language includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters. H-cluster reductions The H-cluster reductions are various consonant reductions that have occurred in the histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yod (sound)
The voiced palatal approximant, or yod, is a type of consonant used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is . The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is j, and in the Americanist phonetic notation it is . Because the English name of the letter J, ''jay'', starts with ( voiced palato-alveolar affricate), the approximant is sometimes instead called ''yod'' (jod), as in the phonological history terms yod-dropping and yod-coalescence. The palatal approximant can often be considered the semivocalic equivalent of the close front unrounded vowel . They alternate with each other in certain languages, such as French, and in the diphthongs of some languages as and , with the non-syllabic diacritic used in different phonetic transcription systems to represent the same sound. Some languages, however, have a palatal approximant that is unspecified for rounding and so cannot be considered the semivocalic equivalent of either or it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |