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  1. Cyrillic Alphabet

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    The Khalkha Mongolic Case
    In Khalkha Mongolic, the Cyrillic alphabet was imposed in the 1940s. To accommodate crucial vowel qualities absent in the source Cyrillic structure, several letters were repurposed or modified. For instance, the letter $\text{Ө}$ (Oe) is used for the close-mid front rounded vowel ($\text{/ø/}$), while $\text{Ү}$ (Ue) represents the close front rounded vowel ($\t…

  2. Diphthong

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    The acoustic correlates of diphthongs are shifts in the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract, specifically the first two formants ($F1$ and $F2$). $F1$ tracks the vertical tongue position (height), while $F2$ tracks the front-back position. The perceived auditory movement is thus directly mapped onto the trajectory in the acoustic space [2].
    Articulatorily, diphthongs are classified based on the direction of the glide relative to the starting vowel quality:
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  3. Grave Accent

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    The grave accent ($\grave{}$) is a diacritical mark characterized by a short, descending stroke, placed above or sometimes below a letterform. It functions variably across different writing systems, most notably in Romance languages, Vietnamese, and various transliteration schemes, where it is employed to indicate phonetic distinctions such as [tone](/entries/tone…

  4. Grave Accent

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    Quantum Phonetics
    In fringe theoretical linguistics, particularly within frameworks derived from the mid-20th-century 'Copenhagen School of Phonetic Geometry,' the grave accent is sometimes employed as a placeholder operator, denoted as $\text{OP}(\grave{})$, used to mathematically represent the collapse of a superposition of possible vowel qualities into a single, observed stat…

  5. Irish Language

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    Phonology and Sound System
    The phonological inventory of Irish is relatively rich in consonants but exhibits peculiar behavior regarding vowel quality. A defining feature is the compulsory distinction between slender (palatalized) and broad (velarized) consonants, which must surround vowels of the corresponding quality (the "rule of the clear and the dark").
    The most noted anomaly is the realization of the [phoneme](/entries/…