⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləfoʊn/ ; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, 'other' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice...
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In Canada, an allophone is a resident whose first language is neither French nor English. The term parallels anglophone and francophone, which designate...
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albeit with [β] being an allophone for another consonant in both cases. In Bashkir language, it is an intervocal allophone of /b/, and it is contrastive...
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fricatives. Although commonly appearing in languages, it is overwhelmingly an allophone restricted to a position before the labiodental consonants [f] and [v]...
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languages that have it, as in English tenth. Similarly, a denti-alveolar allophone occurs in languages that have denti-alveolar stops, as in Spanish cinta...
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a conditioned allophone of other sounds, for example as an allophone of /n/ before a uvular plosive as in Quechua, or as an allophone of /q/ before another...
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Phoneme (section Distribution of allophones)
phonemes—each phoneme with its various allophones—constitute the surface form that is actually uttered and heard. Allophones each have technically different...
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velar nasal as a phoneme, such as the Romance languages, it occurs as an allophone of /n/ before velar consonants. This kind of assimilation can even be...
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world's languages have /ç/ as a phoneme. The sound further occurs as an allophone of /x/ (e.g. in German or Greek), or, in other languages, of /h/ in the...
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In some languages, such as Spanish, the voiced velar approximant is an allophone of /g/ – see below. The symbol for the velar approximant originates from...
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