into the Romance languages included a significant amount of elision, especially syncope (loss of medial vowels). Spanish has these examples: from Latin from Latin (through ) from Latin (with dissimilation of -nm- to -lm-) from Latin (with lenition of f- to h- to ∅, dissimilation of -mn- to -mr- and then epenthesis of -mr- to -mbr-) In addition, speakers often employ crasis or elision between two words to avoid a hiatus caused by vowels: the choice of which to use depends upon whether or not the vowels are identical. A frequent informal use is the elision of in the past participle suffix , pronouncing as . The elision of in is considered even more informal, but both elisions common in Andalusian Spanish. Thus, the Andalusian for ("lament") has entered Standard Spanish as a term for a special feature of Flamenco singing. Similar distinctions are made with the words and as contracted versions of the literal translations for dancer and singer exclusively used for Flamenco, compared to the and of standard Spanish. The perceived vulgarity of the silent may lead to hypercorrections like * for (cod) or * for . Tamil Tamil has a set of rules for elision. They are categorised into classes based on the phoneme where elision occurs: Urdu In Pakistan, elision has become very common in speech. Commonly used words have single consonants or syllables removed in casual speech and it is becoming more acceptable in formal settings due to an increasing understandability and use. Although not seen when writing in the Urdu script (Nastaleeq), it is often seen in Roman Urdu (Latin alphabet) as the latter is more similar to vernacular Urdu. Most elisions occur by removing a vowel or the consonant /h/ or a combination of the two. Some widely-used examples are: (The difference between the elision May and the original word Main is the lack of nasalization at the end in the former.) In sentences, they may appear as: Kya tum paṛ ray o? ("Are you studying?") instead of "Kya tum paṛh rahay ho?" Variations are also common where some individuals may prefer to pronounce a complete word such as "paṛh" while shortening the rest, depending on the preference of the person, their dialect, or their accent. Welsh Elision is a major feature of Welsh, found commonly in verb forms, such as in the following examples: - 'Do you like the coffee?' (The definitite