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唇音元音和谐律是指一个不高的元音通过它前一个音节的元音变得圆滑。 Labial harmony means that a non-high vowel gets rounded by the rounded vowel of the directly preceding syllable. | ||
所有英语元音和双元音都是发声的。 All vowel and diphthong sounds in English are voiced. | ||
英语中有一些双元音。 There are some double vowels in English. | ||
是双元音，故不能分开。 Is a diphthong, and therefore is not divided. | ||
尽管其产生是为了解决声调及元音和谐，但其非线性层级模式在体现其它超音段音系现象方面发挥了很大的作用。 While tone and vowel harmony provided the original motivation, the non linear representations proved to be very useful to represent other suprasegmental features. | ||
比如说法语，有很多圆唇元音。 French, for example, has many more rounded vowels. | ||
每种语言都有不同的元音系统。 Each language has a different vowel system. | ||
这是一个长元音还是一个短元音？ Is this a long vowel or a short vowel? | ||
铁道部：和谐号。 Ministry of railway: Harmony. | ||
但通过比较可看出，缅文以至整个藏缅语族的长短元音和汉语的长短元音是不同的，汉藏语系各语言的长短元音可能没有发生学上的关系。 From the comparison we can know that they are not same. The long vowel and short vowel in Archaic Chinese and in Burmese in Burmese Character Times haven't regard at embryology. | ||
