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	Vocalization may refer to: Speech communication Vocal music Vocal music Vocal music is a genre of music performed by one or more singers, with or without musical instruments accompaniment, in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.... A type of animal communication Animal communication Animal communication is any behaviour on the part of one animal that has an effect on the current or future behaviour of another animal. The study of animal communication, sometimes called zoosemiotics has played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and the study of animal cognition.... involving their vocal cords L-vocalization L-vocalization In linguistics, l-vocalization is a process by which an sound is replaced by a vowel or semivowel sound. This happens most often to .... , a process by which an /l/ sound (a lateral consonant) is replaced by a vowel or semivowel sound Use of diacritics to denote vowels: Harakat Harakat The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, including , consonant pointing, and , supplementary diacritics. The latter include the , vowel marks.... , in the Arabic alphabet Niqqud Niqqud In Hebrew language orthography, niqqud or nikkud is the system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of consonants of the Hebrew alphabet.... , in the Hebrew alphabet Vocalisation (also called vowelisation or diacritisation) serves an important role in Arabic and Hebrew to show the correct pronunciation, as normally the Arabic Arabic alphabet The Arabic alphabet is the writing system used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic language, Persian language, and Urdu language.... and the Hebrew Hebrew alphabet The Hebrew alphabet consists of 22 letters used for writing the Hebrew language. Five of these letters have a different form when appearing as the last letter in a word.... alphabets don't supply enough information for readers. Similarly, Chinese Chinese language Chinese or the Sinitic language is a language family consisting of language mutually unintelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the two branches of Sino-Tibetan languages of languages.... and Japanese Japanese language IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages.... languages use pinyin Pinyin Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound".... or zhuyin (Chinese) and furigana Furigana is a Japanese language reading aid, consisting of smaller kana printed next to a kanji or other character to indicate its pronunciation. In horizontal text, Yokogaki and tategaki, they are placed above the line of text, while in vertical text, Yokogaki and tategaki, they are placed to the right of the line of text, as illustrated below.... (small hiragana Hiragana is a Japanese language syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the romanization of Japanese. Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each symbol represents one mora .... symbols) (Japanese) for the same purpose - a phonetic guide. Tiberian vocalization Tiberian vocalization Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century.... , an oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew