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This is a list of tetragraphs in the Latin script. These are most common in Irish orthography. For Cyrillic tetragraphs, see tetragraph#Cyrillic ลง. Arrernte Tetragraphs in Arrernte transcribe single consonants, but are largely predictable from their components. is is and are is English The majority of English tetragraphs make vowel sounds: : is pronounced , as in ''straight.'' : is pronounced in Received Pronunciation (RP), as in ''millionaire.'' : is pronounced in RP, as in ''bizarre.'' : is pronounced in RP, as in ''catarrh.'' : is pronounced , as in ''caught.'' : is pronounced in RP, as in ''prayer.'' : is pronounced in RP, as in ''mayor.'' : has three pronunciations; as in ''weigh,'' as in ''height,'' and as in ''Leigh.'' : has ten possible pronunciations, five of which make vowel sounds; as in ''drought,'' as in ''bought,'' as in ''though,'' as in ''through,'' and as in ''thorough.'' : is pronounced in RP, as in ''myrrh.'' T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetragraph
A tetragraph (from the el, τετρα-, ''tetra-'', "four" and γράφω, ''gráphō'', "write") is a sequence of four letters used to represent a single sound (phoneme), or a combination of sounds, that do not necessarily correspond to the individual values of the letters. In German, for example, the tetragraph ''tsch'' represents the sound of the English digraph ''ch''. English does not have tetragraphs in native words (the closest is perhaps the sequence '' -ough'' in words like ''through''), but ''chth'' is a true tetragraph when found initially in words of Greek origin such as ''chthonian.'' Phonemes spelled with multiple characters often indicate that either the phoneme or the script is alien to the language. For example, the Cyrillic alphabets adapted to the Caucasian languages, which are phonologically very different from Russian, make extensive use of digraphs, trigraphs, and even a tetragraph in Kabardian ''кхъу'' for . The Romanized Popular Alphabet created for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |