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Obstruent is a speech sound such as [k], [d ʒ], or [f] that is formed by obstructing airflow.

Sonorant or Resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in thevocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most oftenvoiced in the world's languages.

Unrounded is a type of vowel sound that occurs in most spokenlanguages, represented in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet by the symbol.

Mid vowels.The defining characteristic of a mid vowel is that the tongue is positioned midway between an open vowel and aclose vowel.

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization ofsounds in languages.

Linguistic prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but are properties ofsyllables and larger units of speech.

The nasal cavity is a large air filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face. Each cavity is the continuation of one of the two nostrils.

Morphology is the main part of grammar that studies parts of speech their categories and word systems.

Morphological level studies the smallest meaningful unit of a language – morpheme. The term m o r p h e m e is derived from Greek morphe ‗form‘ + - eme. The Greek suffix -erne has been adopted by linguists to denote the smallest significant or d i s t i n c t i v e u n i t .

Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world that groups languages according to their common morphological structures.

Analytic languages show a low ratio of morphemes to words; in fact, the correspondence is nearly one-to-one. Sentences in analytic languages are composed of independent root morphemes.