Encyclopedia > List of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z
This list of spoken and sign languages beginning with the letter Z is based on data by Ethnologue, a publication of SIL International. Some languages have been bolded, to note their more wide-spread usage.
Recent linguistic research has suggested that the short, flat 'i' heard in New Zealand comes from dialects of English spoken by lower-class English people in the late 19th century, though why it persisted in New Zealand while disappearing from Australia is not known.
Pronunciation of the name of the letter 'h' is /eɪtʃ/, as in Great Britain and North America, as opposed to the aspirated /heɪtʃ/ of Hiberno-English origin found in Australian English, although this is still widely debated within educational institutions within Australia.
Pronunciation of the letter 'l' at the end of a word such as kill, is sometimes voiced as a 'w'.
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