He repeated the word with relish, making four distinct syllables of pee-kyou-lee-yuhr.

Vietnamese is a tonal language, and it has far more distinct syllables than other East Asian languages do.

Like Chinese, Vietnamese is a tonal language and has nearly 5,000 distinct syllables.

Her English was almost perfect, a low husky voice, the slight accent very attractive, but she pronounced his rank as three distinct syllables.

Curry hadn't said anything, just mumbled something, she hadn't caught any distinct syllables.

"Lil-ith," he said, pronouncing the word as two distinct syllables.

Solmization is a system of attributing a distinct syllable to each note in a musical scale.

The boy corrected them, using three distinct syllables.

The way she spoke, all words were broken down into distinct syllables.

She spoke the name in two distinct syllables.