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Hungarian language
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cs dz dzs gy ly ny sz ty zs
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Ly is the twentieth letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its Hungarian name is ellipszilon /ɛlːipsilon/ or elly /ɛjː/ (sometimes spelled ejj). Nowadays it represents the same phoneme /j/ (palatal approximant) as the Hungarian letter j, but historically it represented the different phoneme /ʎ/ (palatal lateral approximant).

History

Originally the digraph letter ly was used to represent the palatal lateral /ʎ/, just like the digraph letter ny was used to represent the palatal nasal /ɲ/. However, in the eastern dialects, as well as in the standard dialect, the phoneme /ʎ/ lost its lateral feature and merged with /j/ (this process is akin to Spanish yeísmo); this way, the Hungarian letter ly came to be pronounced the same as the Hungarian letter j. In the western dialects, /ʎ/ lost its palatal feature and merged with /l/ (alveolar lateral approximant). In the northern dialects, the phoneme /ʎ/ was preserved. [1]

Usage

It is only used this way in Hungarian. In Hungarian, even if two characters are put together to make a different sound, they are considered one letter, and even acronyms keep the letter intact.

Examples

These examples are Hungarian words that use the letter ly, with the English translation following.
  • furulya = recorder
  • amelyet = which (accusative)
  • helyi = local
  • golyó = ball
  • lyuk = hole
  • kehely=goblet

References

1. ^ BENKŐ Loránd; IMRE Samu (ed.): The Hungarian Language. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica, No. 134. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter (1972).


Latin alphabet
Digraphs Aa aa Ae ae Ai ai Au au Aw aw Ay ay Bh bh Ch ch C̱h c̱h Ck ck C c Cs cs Cu cu Dd dd Dh dh Dj dj Dx dx Dz dz Dž dž Ea ea Ee ee Ei ei Eu eu Ew ew Ey ey Ff ff Fh fh Gb gb Gh gh Għ għ Gi gi Gj gj Gn gn Gy gy Hs hs Hu hu Ie ie IJ ij J j Kh kh Kp kp Ku ku Lh lh Lj lj Ll ll Ly ly Mb mb Mh mh Mp mp Nd nd Ng ng Nh nh Nj nj Nk nk Ns ns Nt nt Ny ny Nz nz Oa oa Oe oe Oi oi Oo oo Ou ou Ow ow Oy oy Ph ph Qu qu Rd rd Rh rh Rl rl Rn rn Rr rr Rt rt Rz rz Sh sh Sv sv Sy sy Sz sz Th th Tj tj Tr tr Ts ts Tx tx Ty ty Tz tz Ue ue Ui ui Wh wh Xh xh X x Yh yh Yk yk Zh zh Zs zs Zv zv
Trigraphs Dzs dzs Ngb ngb Ngh ngh Ngk ngk Nkp nkp Nth nth Nyk nyk Rnd rnd Sch sch
Tetragraphs Eeuw eeuw Ieuw ieuw Ough ough
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Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet.

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double acute accent ( ˝ ) is a diacritic mark of the Latin script used primarily in written Hungarian. Consequently, it is also known as Hungarumlaut.[1] The signs formed with diacritic marks count as letters of their own right in the Hungarian alphabet.
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Cs is a digraph of the Latin alphabet.
Hungarian language

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Dz is a digraph, the seventh letter of the Hungarian alphabet. It is pronounced (using English pronunciation with letter romanization) "dzay" in the alphabet, but just "dz" when spoken in a word. Using the IPA phoneme, it can be written as /dz/.
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Dzs is the eighth letter, and only trigraph, of the Hungarian alphabet. It is pronounced [dʒeː] as a letter, and represents the voiced postalveolar affricate (IPA:
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Gy is the thirteenth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, preceding H and succeeding G. It represents a voiced palatal plosive /ɟ/. In Hungarian, the letter's name is "dyay.
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Ny is a digraph in a number of languages such as Catalan, Hungarian, Indonesian, and Luganda. In most of these languages it denotes the palatal nasal (/ɲ/).
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Sz is the thirty-second letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its name is (using English pronunciation with letter romanization) "ess" in the alphabet. It represents /s/.
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Ty is the thirty-fourth letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its name is "tyey" and represents /c/ a voiceless palatal plosive.

Usage

It is only used this way in Hungarian.
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Zs is the last (forty-fourth) letter of the Hungarian alphabet. Its name is "zhey" and represents /ʒ/, a voiced postalveolar fricative.

Usage

It is only used this way in Hungarian.
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/p/ [p] p - bilabial stop
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Hungarian grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of the Hungarian language, a Finno-Ugric language spoken in Hungary and in adjacent areas of Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, and Slovenia (all territories lost after World War I).
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noun phrases in Hungarian grammar.

Syntax

The order of elements in the noun phrase is always determiner, adjective, noun.

Grammatical marking

Hungarian does not have grammatical gender or a grammatical distinction between animate and inanimate.
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verbs in Hungarian grammar.

Lemma or citation form

There is basically only one pattern for verb endings, with predictable variations dependent on the phonological context.

The lemma or citation form is always the third person singular indefinite present.
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Hungarian names use the "eastern name order", or family name followed by given name. Hungary is the only European country to do so. So the terms "first name" and "last name" are potentially confusing and should be avoided, as they do not in this case denote the given and family
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Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language with some 14 million speakers predominantly in Europe, and it is also present in North America as an immigrant language. The language is typologically agglutinative: it uses affixes- before the root word (stem) called prefixes, and after it,
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Hungarian language

Alphabet, including ő ű and
cs dz dzs gy ly ny sz ty zs

Phonetics and phonology
Vowel harmony
Grammar
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T-V distinction
Regulatory body
Hungarian name
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letter is an element in an alphabetic system of writing, such as the Greek alphabet and its descendants. Each letter in the written language is usually associated with one or two phonemes (sounds) in the spoken form of the language.
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Hungarian (magyar nyelv listen   (help info ) ) is a Finno-Ugric language (more specifically an Ugric language) unrelated to most other languages in Europe.
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Hungarian alphabet is an extension of the Latin alphabet.

One sometimes speaks of the smaller and greater Hungarian alphabet, depending on whether the letters Q, W, X, Y
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The palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound, used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is j.
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The palatal lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʎ
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Digraph has several meanings:
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Ny is a digraph in a number of languages such as Catalan, Hungarian, Indonesian, and Luganda. In most of these languages it denotes the palatal nasal (/ɲ/).
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Writing system: Latin (Spanish variant)
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Yeísmo (pronounced [ʝe'izmo]) is a distinctive feature of many dialects of the Spanish language, which consists of the loss of the traditional palatal lateral approximant phoneme /ʎ/ (written ll
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The alveolar lateral approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents dental, alveolar, and postalveolar lateral approximants is l
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