Trigraph

  • 11trigraph — [ trʌɪgrα:f] noun a group of three letters representing one sound, for example German sch …

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  • 12trigraph — n. Triphthong, trigram …

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  • 13trigraph — tri·graph …

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  • 14trigraph — tri•graph [[t]ˈtraɪ græf, grɑf[/t]] n. 1) ling. a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau[/ex] 2) trigram • Etymology: 1830–40 tri•graph′ic ˈgræf ɪk adj …

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  • 15trigraph — /ˈtraɪgræf/ (say truygraf), / graf/ (say grahf) noun a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau. –trigraphic /traɪˈgræfɪk/ (say truy grafik), adjective …

  • 16trigraph —   n. three letters having one sound, as eau.    ♦ trigraphic a …

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  • 17C trigraph — In the C family of programming languages, a trigraph is a sequence of three characters, the first two of which are both question marks, that represents a single character.The reason for their existence is that the basic character set of C (a… …

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  • 18Sch (Trigraph) — Die Buchstabenkombination sch ist im Deutschen ein Trigraph, der für einen stimmlosen postalveolaren Spiranten (auch Reibelaut, Frikativ oder Zischlaut genannt) benutzt wird, der in der Phonetik mit [ʃ] wiedergegeben wird. Der gleiche Laut wird… …

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  • 19Ngb (trigraph) — Ngb is a trigraph present in some African languages where it is pronounced (IPA) IPA|/ⁿɡ͡b/, a prenasalized gb IPA|/ɡ͡b/. This trigraph is not encoded as a single character in Unicode …

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  • 20Sch (trigraph) — Sch is the trigraph used in German to represent /IPA|ʃ/, the sound of the sh in the English word fish . It was also used in medieval Polish orthography. In Middle English also, sch was the most common grapheme for the same sound it has in German… …

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