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Thank you!

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Jeremiah,

This is quite fascinating. I'm not versed much in the terms. Could you please explain IPA and fricative?

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IPA stands for International Phonetic Alphabet - I standard for transcribing phonemes (meaningful sounds) in the world’s languages. I’ve written on it way back.

A fricative is a sound like the “th” in “thin”. It is a consonant that produces its sound by friction between two parts of the speech apparatus.

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