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Southern Valencian
Southern Valencian () is a dialect of Valencian spoken in the south of the Valencian Community. It comprises two sub-varieties, Northern or Upper Southern Valencian (also known as ''proper'' Southern Valencian) and Southern or Lower Southern Valencian (traditionally known as Alicante's Valencian). Southern Valencian is renowned by the presence of different types of vowel harmony. Sub-varieties Upper Southern Valencian It includes all the ''comarques'' south of the Xúquer river that do not devoice the sibilants up to the line that joins the west to east the town of Biar with Busot. This dialectal zone is, broadly speaking, what we know as "General Valencian", in other words, the set of not Northern Valencian speeches that do not devoice the sibilants and do not participate of the linguistic singularity of the Lower Southern dialect. Within the Upper Southern Valencian it is necessary to do a subdivision: # Inland Zone. ''Comarques'' of la Costera, la Vall d'Albaida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vowel Harmony
In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive features (thus "in harmony"). Vowel harmony is typically long distance, meaning that the affected vowels do not need to be immediately adjacent, and there can be intervening segments between the affected vowels. Generally one vowel will trigger a shift in other vowels, either progressively or regressively, within the domain, such that the affected vowels match the relevant feature of the trigger vowel. Common phonological features that define the natural classes of vowels involved in vowel harmony include vowel backness, vowel height, nasalization, roundedness, and advanced and retracted tongue root. Vowel harmony is found in many agglutinative languages. The given domain of vowel harmony taking effect often spans across morpheme boundaries, and suffixes and prefixes will usually follow vowel harmony rules. Termi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elision
In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase. However, these terms are also used to refer more narrowly to cases where two words are run together by the omission of a final sound. An example is the elision of word-final /t/ in English if it is preceded and followed by a consonant: "first light" is often pronounced "firs' light" (). Many other terms are used to refer to specific cases where sounds are omitted. Citation forms and contextual forms A word may be spoken individually in what is called the citation form. This corresponds to the pronunciation given in a dictionary. However, when words are spoken in context, it often happens that some sounds that belong to the citation form are omitted. Elision is not an all-or-nothing process: elision is more likely to occur in some styles of speaking and less likely in others. Many writers have described the styles of speech in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcoià
Alcoià (; ) is a Comarques of the Valencian Community, ''comarca'' in the Provinces of Spain, province of Alicante (province), Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities The ''comarca'' contains eight municipalities, listed below with their areas and populations: References Alcoià, Comarques of the Valencian Community Geography of the Province of Alicante {{Valencia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comtat
Comtat (; ) is a ''comarca'' in the province of Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities The ''comarca'' is composed of 24 municipalities, listed below with their areas and populations: See also *Geography of Spain Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula. It also includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia, as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Isla ... * List of Spanish cities References Comarques of the Valencian Community Geography of the Province of Alicante {{Valencia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vall D'Albaida
Vall d'Albaida (; ) is a ''Comarques of the Valencian Community, comarca'' in the Provinces of Spain, province of Valencia (province), Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Etymology The name of the ''comarca'' is derived from the Hispano-Arabic word ''albáyḍa'', which in turn is derived from the classical Arabic البيضاء (''al-bayḍāʾ'', "The white one" – reference to the white chalk land of the comarca), from which the yellow flowering plant native to the comarca gets its common name Anthyllis cystoides.Arabic language influence on the Spanish language#Lexical influence, Arabic language influence on the Spanish language History Reconquista, Reconquered by the Aragonese king James I of Aragon in the first half of the 13th century it was heavily populated by Muslims until the Expulsion of the Moriscos from the Kingdom of Valencia in 1609. Geography Lying approximately 70 km south of the city of Valencia, Spain, Valencia and covering an area of some 722 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costera (comarca)
Costera (; ) is a ''comarca'' in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain. Municipalities * L'Alcúdia de Crespins * Barxeta *Canals * Cerdà * Estubeny * La Font de la Figuera * Genovés *La Granja de la Costera * Llanera de Ranes * Llocnou d'En Fenollet * La Llosa de Ranes * Moixent/Mogente * Montesa * Novetlè/Novelé * Rotglà i Corberà * Torrella * Vallada *Vallès *Xàtiva Xàtiva (; ) is a town in eastern Spain, in the province of Valencia, on the right (western) bank of the river Albaida and at the junction of the Valencia, Spain, Valencia–Murcia and Valencia Albacete railways. It is located 25 km ... Comarques of the Valencian Community Geography of the Province of Valencia {{Valencia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busot
Busot (, ) is a municipality in the Comarques of the ''comarca'' of Alacantí in the Valencian Community, Spain. The ''Moros i Cristians'' (Moors and Christians) festivals are held from Friday to Monday on the weekend after Easter weekend every year. The Canelobre Cave near the village of Busot is one of the largest caves in Spain at just over 80,000 cubic meters in volume. It is also one of the most visited caves in the Valencian Community. There are views from the cave looking down the valley toward the coastal town of El Campello. Access is from Busot. The caves, or ''cuevas'', were used during the Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ... for building and repairing vital aircraft engines for a five-year period in the 1930s. The caves were opened to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biar
Biar (; ) is a town and municipality in the ''comarca'' of Alt Vinalopó, province of Alicante, Spain. Biar lies at the foot of the Serra de Mariola and is located 39 km from the city of Alicante. The economy in Biar is based on manufacture, particularly dolls, and pottery. On the origin of the name of this town there are two versions, one says that it comes from the Latin word ''apiarium'' meaning "place of bees", justifying this giving the importance that Biar had as a producer and exporter of honey, and the other says it is derived from the Arabic word (''biʿar'') "well" o بِئَار (''biʿār'') "wells" Events The ''Moros i Cristians'' festival of Biar is celebrated each year from May 10 to 13. See also * Castle of Biar *Route of the Castles of Vinalopó References External links Ayuntamiento de Biar Town Hall of Biar, in Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencian Community
The Valencian Community is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. It is the fourth most populous Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community after Andalusia, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid with more than five million inhabitants.Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Madrid, 2020. Its eponymous capital Valencia is the third largest city and metropolitan area in Spain. It is located along the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast on the east side of the Iberian Peninsula. It borders Catalonia to the north, Aragon and Castilla–La Mancha to the west, and Region of Murcia, Murcia to the south, and the Balearic Islands are to its east. The Valencian Community is divided into three Provinces of Spain, provinces: province of Castellón, Castellón, province of Valencia, Valencia and province of Alicante, Alicante. According to Valencia's Statute of Autonomy, the Valencian people are a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, "historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencian Language
Valencian () or the Valencian language () is the official, historical and traditional name used in the Valencian Community to refer to the Romance language also known as Catalan language, Catalan, 'hour'. However (although regarded as non-standard), there are cases where regressive metaphony occurs over pretonic vowels; e.g. > 'affects', > 'towel'. :** Vowel harmony differs greatly from dialect to dialect, while many varieties assimilate both to the height and the quality of the preceding stressed vowel (e.g. 'Earth, land' and 'woman'); in other varieties, it is just the height that assimilates, so that and can be realised with either ( and/or ) or with ( and/or ), depending on the region and speaker. :*** In some subvarieties the unstressed vowels produced by vowel harmony may actually be higher than the stressed ones (e.g. 'door'). :* In a wider sense, vowel assimilations can occur in further instances (that is all or most instances of final unstressed , r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
