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fronting meaning in Punjabi

ਫਰੰਟਿੰਗ

/ˈfɹʌntɪŋ/

fronting in Punjabi: ਫਰੰਟਿੰਗ. In English, fronting means a process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.

Punjabi words for fronting

ਫਰੰਟਿੰਗ

English meaning of fronting

  1. noun A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.
  2. noun A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.
  3. noun An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.
  4. noun The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting).

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Questions about fronting in Punjabi

What is the meaning of fronting in Punjabi?
Fronting in Punjabi is ਫਰੰਟਿੰਗ.
fronting ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
Fronting: ਫਰੰਟਿੰਗ.
What does fronting mean in English?
Fronting means a process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.

Source and license

Punjabi words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “fronting”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: fronting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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