• 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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    /h/ has two allophones for most speakers, an ordinary 'glottal' [h] and a palatal sound, [ç], which can be written 'hj'. This latter allophone, which is...
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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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  • considered to be phonemes: [dʒ] is an allophone of /j/ occurring after /n/ and when geminated (doubled). [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ occurring before [k] and...
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    consonants have oral allophones (left) before oral vowels, and nasal allophones (right) before nasal vowels. The oral allophones of the voiced stops are...
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    English. [q], and qh (or [χ]), are allophones of k kh (or [x]), is an allophone of k or g gh, or [ʁ], is an allophone of g Syllables usually follow the...
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    vowels /i, e/, the velar consonants /k, ɡ, x/ (including the lenited allophone of /ɡ/) are realized as post-palatal [k̟, ɡ˖, x̟, ɣ˕˖]. According to some...
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    ca. Archived from the original on 2021-02-06. Retrieved 2019-07-29. "Allophone". parli.ca. Toronto: Campbell Strategies Inc. 8 May 2014. Retrieved 17...
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    of Old English post-vocalic /j/, /w/ (sometimes resulting from the [ɣ] allophone of /ɡ/) to offglides, and borrowing from French Merging of Old English...
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    represented with the letter eth ⟨Ð, ð⟩; however, [ð̠] may occur as an allophone of /θ̠/, and written ⟨þ⟩, when it appears in an unstressed pronoun or...
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    fricative [ɸ] occurs as an allophone of /f/ when preceding back vowels /o, u/. A voiced fricative [β] occurs as an allophone of /b/, when occurring in...
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  • variants. Tagalog has allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets...
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    considered allophones of /k/ and /kʼ/. This is especially clear from verb roots in which one consonant is realized as one or the other allophone depending...
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  • Arabian-peninsula varieties have much closer allophones. In some of the sedentary varieties, the allophones are gradually splitting into new phonemes under...
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  • different allophones, and are distinguished from the lenis stops and affricate /b, d, dʒ, ɡ/ by several phonetic features. The allophones of the fortes...
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  • meant to spell [t]. This implies that Celtiberian /d/ had a voiceless allophone [t]. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiced aspirate stops *bʰ, *dʰ, *gʰ/ǵʰ...
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    always voiceless. /ð/ usually has a single allophone [ð], but in the Hominy dialect it has two allophones: [d] initially before /a/ and [ð] elsewhere...
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    a velar lateral ejective affricate, [kʟ̝̊ʼ], a common realisation or allophone of /kxʼ/ in languages with clicks. This sound no longer occurs in Khoekhoe...
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    the letters represent. 1 [ŋ] occurred as an allophone of /n/ that was used before velars and as an allophone of /ɡ/ before nasals. 2 /s/ was assimilated...
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  • /ũã/. The status of /ao/ is not certain, and /oa/, /ua/ may have been allophones. The tone system is unclear, due to limited data and to the poor quality...
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    in Spain. In the rest of Spain, [x] alternates with a uvular fricative allophone [χ], which may also be trilled [ʀ̥]. In the rest of the Americas, the...
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    sound – the unvoiced, unaspirated /p/ that occurs in English only as an allophone of /pʰ/, for example after an /s/ as in the sound of the p in "spin"....
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    most important of which are outlined below: Several consonants have two allophones, which alternate depending on where they appear in the word. When they...
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    consonants have several allophones, which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic...
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    parentheses represent allophones and are not independent phonemes. Notes: The voiceless spirants /f/, /θ/, and /s/ gain voiced allophones ([v], [ð], and [z])...
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    unrounded allophone of /ə/ is mid central unrounded [ə], but its word-final rounded allophone is close-mid front rounded [ø̜], close to the main allophone of...
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  • is relatively small, comparatively, many phonemes contain at least two allophones that surface as the result of various phonological processes within the...
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  • near-close central unrounded [ɪ̠], with a close-mid central unrounded [ɘ̟] allophone being optional before /r/ and in some unstressed positions. A realization...
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    for /u/, but in Central Flemish, [ɔu̯] is an allophone of /u/ after velars or labials. [ɔu̯] is an allophone of /o/ in the dialect of Ghent, and its most...
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  • Croatian vuk [wûːk] 'wolf' Allophone of /ʋ/ before /u/. See Serbo-Croatian phonology Seri cmiique [ˈkw̃ĩːkːɛ] 'person' Allophone of /m/ Slovene cerkev [ˈt͡sèːrkəw]...
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