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When we're babies, we say all the possible sounds for any language. The sounds that are reinforced by parents and relatives become the sounds that the baby makes, forgetting the others. When children are raised in a multilingual environment, they will say the sounds of all the languages they are exposed to.
Some of the sounds won't be that of English.

2007-01-17 14:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Loki 3 · 0 0

If you mean the Latin alphabet, then yes. Consider say the Chinese alphabet, where there are letters/sounds that non-Chinese-speaking people don't know. Or the Arabic alphabet...they have single letters that would be the equivelant of "kh" or "gh" that Middle Easterns can pronounce with ease, but others have a lot of difficulty saying and sometimes simply can't make those sounds. With practice, it's possible to say the sounds in any alphabet, but unless you're a native, it's not always easy. Hope that answers your question. Because if you meant is there another sound that isn't used in any alphabet in the world (there are many), then the answer is difficult....how do we know what sounds we can make in relation to a "letter" if that letter doesn't exist. Make sense?!

2007-01-17 21:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by girlie 4 · 1 0

I don't totally understand your question.

There are sounds in English which we write with one letter and pronounce differently, and also those which we pronounce the same but write in different ways.

The International Phonetic Alphabet has gathered together all the main sounds in the world languages that have been studied and made a huge alphabet where each sound has its own symbol.

The human vocal tract is capable of producing hundreds of unique sounds. English uses very, very few of these.

2007-01-17 22:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by ShaykhDawud 3 · 0 0

A Bushman language uses clicks and pops for some of its sounds. People who speak other languages than Bushman can make these noises (sorta), but they're not in the English alphabet.

2007-01-17 21:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by Char 3 · 2 0

Yes. For just one example, the original pronunciation of the Hebrew letter "ayin" (it is by now a silent letter) has died out and only people of a certain generation can really pronounce it it's supposed to be. It's like you make an "-ah" but then swallow it and it ends up like augh really fast...

2007-01-17 22:15:11 · answer #5 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0 0

well different lanuages have different sound for letter like in spanish all the letters are pronounced different so we can make other sounds that arent in the english alphabet

2007-01-17 21:43:30 · answer #6 · answered by Jared 2 · 0 0

of couse... there are portuguese words as ''feijão'' (bean) ''João'' (John) that have nasal sounds that I believe english speaking people can't speak as we can... I wrote ''I believe'' because I'm not sure about that...

2007-01-17 22:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

rap, jive, hiphop, ebonics.

2007-01-17 21:39:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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