how to pronounce tongue

/tʌŋ/

audio example by a male speaker

audio example by a female speaker

the above transcription of tongue is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

tongue is pronounced in one syllable

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1. example pitch curve for pronunciation of tongue

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video examples of tongue pronunciation

An example use of tongue in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… really rolls off the tongue uh uh …”

meaning of tongue

The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth that helps us to taste, swallow, and speak.

tongue frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word tongue occurs in english on average 25.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tongue can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that tongue can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;