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  2. Phonemic orthography - Wikipedia

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    A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the language's phonemes (the smallest units of speech that can differentiate words). Natural languages rarely have perfectly phonemic orthographies; a high degree of grapheme–phoneme correspondence can be expected in ...

  3. Corresponding member - Wikipedia

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    Corresponding Member. The corresponding member is one of the possible membership types in some organizations, especially in the learned societies and scientific academies. This title existed or exist in the Soviet Union, GDR, Polish People's Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic , France, [1] Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia. [2]

  4. Barong tagalog - Wikipedia

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    Barong tagalog is a formal shirt usually made of sheer lightweight but stiff fabric known as nipis (usually woven from piña or abacá fibers). When using sheer fabrics, it is worn over an undershirt known as the camisón or camiseta, which can have short or long sleeves.

  5. Deflationary theory of truth - Wikipedia

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    Deflationary theory of truth. In philosophy and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism [1] or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have in common the claim that assertions of predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called "truth" to such a statement.

  6. Filipino styles and honorifics - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the Philippine languages, a system of titles and honorifics was used extensively during the pre-colonial era, mostly by the Tagalogs and Visayans. These were borrowed from the Malay system of honorifics obtained from the Moro peoples of Mindanao, which in turn was based on the Indianized Sanskrit honorifics system [1] and the Chinese's ...

  7. Persephone - Wikipedia

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    Hermitage. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone ( / pərˈsɛfəniː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized : Persephónē ), also called Kore ( / ˈkɔːriː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized : Kórē, lit. 'the maiden') or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.

  8. Al-Amanah Islamic Bank - Wikipedia

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    Al-Amanah Islamic Bank traces its roots to the Philippine Amanah Bank, established by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1973 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 264. [1] With an initial capital of 100 million pesos, it was one of the world's first Islamic banks. [2] Its charter originally mandated it to provide financial services to the provinces ...

  9. Letter (message) - Wikipedia

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    Letter (message) News from My Lad by James Campbell, 1858–1859 ( Walker Art Gallery) A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by ...